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Let’s go back to a question that I have posed several times to myself and never came back with a satisfactory answer:

Is access to health care a fundamental human right?

Continue reading “Health Care: A Right or a Privilege?”

Yesterday I wasted almost a full hour trying to write the next post on Health Care.  I started and scrapped three different posts.

I just am not sure what I want to say next about this topic.  The truth is, I feel like a tiny minority here.  I clearly see the need for reform and innovation in both the payer system as well as the medical delivery industry.  But, I just don’t see any solutions that I feel I can strongly support.  I am neither for the current proposed reform, nor am I vehemently against it.

So instead of just blindly choosing a side and waving their signs and banners, I want to just discuss the reforms we need to make and share my views on how we might proceed.

Continue reading “Health Care: What to Reform”

Just to review:

1. In our current health care model we have providers & payers.
2. Providers are largely an effective industry.
3. Payers are largely a bloated system on which the industry has been built.
4. Cost is the ultimate problem.

So today I want to delve into cost.

How much does it cost to see a doctor?

Continue reading “Health Care: How Much Does it Cost to See a Doctor?”