Healthcare?

Nothing being considered by the Administration or Congress, or advocated by insurers, medical associations or providers, or political commentators (including Fox News) has anything to do with “health care.”

Is There a Health Care System?

No. We have no system for providing health care. As Dan Roam points out:

“What we call a health care system is a fragmented collection of “information islands” that only communicate when someone needs to get paid…Each of these islands relies on us to be the carrier pigeon ferrying the information from one to the other.”

Watch his post proposing a speech by President Obama to the Congress:

I have written about this before, but not as succinctly as does Dan. In another of his “napkin” blogs, Roam shows the substance of the insurance (oops! obviously, I mean “health care”) reform problem as we face it today. (Or not)…

No, I don’t shy from re-posting here ideas and comments of others. No one originates all good ideas and good ideas (should) foster good discussion.