Umm . . . I'm not sure if that's the tone we want to adopt in the debate over our nation's health. Nonetheless, Matthew Holt does a good job of outlining another hurdle we have to overcome if we expect health care to be affordable for all. He laments at the new plans in California and Massachusetts that facilitate insurance companies slicing the population into healthy people willing to pay for insurance and unhealthy people too poor to pay for insurance. It then becomes significantly easier to deny insurance to the latter.
You know, it's hard as someone interested in medical news and policy to feel optimistic. Both sides of the insurance debate do such a great job slicing into the other's arguments that I feel stranded in the middle, holding the tattered pieces of the single-payer and pure market proposals in my hands. Maybe, instead of agreeing that there's a problem, both sides should agree that there is a solution, a Platonic ideal of health and medicine. What does that utopia look like? We have to have a destination before we can start the journey.
Thursday, February 1, 2007
Why Healthcare Reform Won't Work
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The answer is most likely such harsh medicine that only the pending bankrupting of our country will drive us to change. It is an astouding mix of interests that all seek a part of the trillion dollar pie. It will take something like Toyota to reform the system. Who is healthcare's Toyota? Is it revolution health? Probably not. The solution rests w/ a profound impactful leader to move us to drink our harsh medicine. Could it be you Henry?
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