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When you’re sick, you have a lot of free time to sit and do nothing.  Instead of doing nothing, I spend some time watching all SIX hours of the Bipartisan Photo Op for Elected Officials to Hear Themselves Talk Health Care Summit that President Obama held a few weeks ago.

If you are bored, it’s located at www.whitehouse.gov.

It was really interesting to watch, although my wife’s eyes are still rolled back into her head four days later.

A few things I took away:
Continue reading “Obama’s Health Care Summit”

Here’s that pesky mainstream media at it again… showing two very distinctly different viewpoints on the health care issue.

I don’t care whether you agree with President Obama, or with Rep Boehner and Sen Graham… the point is: the tone is better. We’re not ooo-gaaa-boo-gaaa-boo scaring people. We’re not pounding the bully pulpit. No one’s stamping their feet and demanding their way.

We’re talking policy. We’re talking ideas. We’re discussing what we want our future to look like.

I like it.

And by the way, I’m looking more closely into the Wyden-Bennett plan, as well as the Baucus Plan.

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?”