Thursday, May 02, 2013
Solutions and Self-Interest
Typically, when someone asks a question like that, immediately naysayers begin to push back, calling the idea absurd and/or cost prohibitive. Or, people laugh and walk away. Data flies around. Conversations turn tense.
Today, I'm wondering why.
The nation faces a health care crisis both in terms of cost and public health outcomes.
Growing numbers of people believe the solution is not that complex to imagine.
The problem revolves around the existing self-interests of powerful groups. This reality produced the compromise response that is the unwieldy Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as "Obama Care."
But, honestly, there is a better way. A way to further curb expenses, as well as a way toward much improved public health results.