Healthcare users should read this
If you are involved with or impacted by the health care debate (which means everyone) and there are only two things you read it should be the following two articles.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health_medicine/4327012.html and
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574334282143887974.html
A few relevant quotes:
from Dean Kamen: “We now live in a world where technology has triumphed, in many ways, over death. The problem with that is that it's enormously expensive. And big pharmaceutical giants and big medical products companies have stopped working on stuff that could be extraordinary because they know they won't be reimbursed, according to the common standards. We're not only rationing today; we're rationing our future. “
from Anthony Daniels aka Theodore Dalrymple : "I also want, wherever I am, the Americans to go on paying for the great majority of the world’s progress in medical research and technological innovation by the preposterous expense of their system: for it is a truth universally acknowledged that American clinical research has long reigned supreme, so overall, the American health-care system must have been doing something right. The rest of the world soon adopts the progress, without the pain of having had to pay for it."
I have been wondering how long it was going to take to people to start understanding the real long term impact of moving to a centralized command and control of the healthcare system would have on the rapid progress that we so much take for granted. All the people in the rest of the world must be looking on with horror as we move on plans that will kill the progress that they have been getting for free. Remember, once the United States is gone, there isn't any other "United States" that will be able to rescue us.
Personally, I don't want a 1950s computer, I don't want 1950s Internet and I certainly don't want 1950s health care. When I am looking back in 2050 I want to be able to say "Thank God that we don't have 2009 computers, 2009 internet or 2009 Healthcare". If we continue down the path the chosen ones in Washington DC have decided for us then we won't be able to say that about healthcare.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health_medicine/4327012.html and
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204908604574334282143887974.html
A few relevant quotes:
from Dean Kamen: “We now live in a world where technology has triumphed, in many ways, over death. The problem with that is that it's enormously expensive. And big pharmaceutical giants and big medical products companies have stopped working on stuff that could be extraordinary because they know they won't be reimbursed, according to the common standards. We're not only rationing today; we're rationing our future. “
from Anthony Daniels aka Theodore Dalrymple : "I also want, wherever I am, the Americans to go on paying for the great majority of the world’s progress in medical research and technological innovation by the preposterous expense of their system: for it is a truth universally acknowledged that American clinical research has long reigned supreme, so overall, the American health-care system must have been doing something right. The rest of the world soon adopts the progress, without the pain of having had to pay for it."
I have been wondering how long it was going to take to people to start understanding the real long term impact of moving to a centralized command and control of the healthcare system would have on the rapid progress that we so much take for granted. All the people in the rest of the world must be looking on with horror as we move on plans that will kill the progress that they have been getting for free. Remember, once the United States is gone, there isn't any other "United States" that will be able to rescue us.
Personally, I don't want a 1950s computer, I don't want 1950s Internet and I certainly don't want 1950s health care. When I am looking back in 2050 I want to be able to say "Thank God that we don't have 2009 computers, 2009 internet or 2009 Healthcare". If we continue down the path the chosen ones in Washington DC have decided for us then we won't be able to say that about healthcare.
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