Rx for Health Care: Pain

It is entirely possible that, unlike the rest of the sick care industry observers, this guy is not insane.

Unfortunately, his "fixes" are off-target. Perhaps he will smarten up.

For sane fixes, see here.

"We need to have a candid debate about health care in 2008, but the odds are against it. The fact that covering the 47 million uninsured already looms as the centerpiece of this debate is a warning sign that it won't be serious. We're told that the uninsured are our biggest health-care problem, but they aren't. Runaway health spending is. Although politicians pay lip service to that, what they really enjoy is increasing spending...

It's understandable because expanding benefits is so much more politically rewarding than trying to control them...

People need to see and feel health costs."

Yeah. If they can feel through all that flab.