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President Obama has won deserved kudos for sidestepping some of the pitfalls of the Clinton health reform effort by getting all parties to acknowledge that there's a real problem and make a commitment to help solve it. Now comes the really hard part that the earlier effort never really addressed - how to get the majority of Americans who are comfortable with the health insurance they have today to ...
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As political theater, the spectacle of health care providers joining President Obama in a pledge to constrain medical costs sure beats a rerun of Harry and Louise. And it may well avert an encore performance, which would be a good thing. The anti-Clintoncare commercials were created by providers as a show of their frustration at being shut out of the process. Including them this time is a lesson learned ...
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We've barely started to discuss the specifics of health insurance reform and already confront a debate among the deaf. Consider the concerns of the Washington Times, which opines: "Nationalized health care puts bureaucrats - not doctors - in charge of deciding who needs what medical treatment. Rationing is inevitable under these schemes. That's one reason Mr. Obama's universal heath care plans must be stopped." The Washington Times makes a strong ...
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Surprising resistance to the embrace of evidence-based medicine as part of health reform reflects a fear of binary and bureaucratic government regulations that ignore the dynamic nature of science. Some of these objections are defensive, but they nonetheless deserve a respectful and honest response, lest they fester to a point where they jeopardize progress.I've encountered three separate expressions of concern. The first was from conservative elements cable news/blogosphere community which ...
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I. Introduction--what this paper is about I hope this paper will spark serious, constructive dialogue about decisions that must be made to move the United States toward comprehensive health care reform. That reform should have three objectives: 1. It should set the country on a clear path to universal coverage, even if coverage is broadened incrementally. Universal coverage means that everyone has a health plan that offers a standard ...
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It looks like the next big product at McDonald's will be the healthy, happy meal that will provide us with a Big Mac, a jumbo order of fries, a large Coke and perhaps a mini-pie as well as the new polypill created by the cardiac community that promises to reduce heart attacks and strokes by at least half. The pill would significantly improve our health to a point where we ...
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President Obama sent Congress a bold budget reflecting the values of his campaign and the dire economic straits he inherited. This plan would, however, raise deficits to unsustainable levels well after the economy recovers. Now Congress has a chance to make the budget better by reducing the long-term deficits. Or it could make it worse. The president's budget reflects the candidate's diagnosis of America's economic ills and offers good remedies. ...
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