Comments on: The high cost of avoiding health care reform http://www.medrants.com/archives/4709 Internal medicine, American health care, and especially medical education Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:15:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Organic Coffee http://www.medrants.com/archives/4709/comment-page-1#comment-528978 Organic Coffee Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:32:42 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/?p=4709#comment-528978 There is so much retorhic from both sides of this thing it is getting a bit crazy. I wish both sides would relax and really look at what is out there. We either come up with something or we are all sunk There is so much retorhic from both sides of this thing it is getting a bit crazy. I wish both sides would relax and really look at what is out there. We either come up with something or we are all sunk

]]> By: Flavored Coffee Drinker http://www.medrants.com/archives/4709/comment-page-1#comment-528970 Flavored Coffee Drinker Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:28:27 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/?p=4709#comment-528970 Not sure what needs to be done but something has to happen or we will all be unable to afford health care. Maybe a start would be to take the write off for advertising from drug companies and we will get rid of the TV ads as well Sparky Flavored Coffee Drinker Not sure what needs to be done but something has to happen or we will all be unable to afford health care. Maybe a start would be to take the write off for advertising from drug companies and we will get rid of the TV ads as well
Sparky Flavored Coffee Drinker

]]> By: amy http://www.medrants.com/archives/4709/comment-page-1#comment-528757 amy Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:54:08 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/?p=4709#comment-528757 Worse than what ? How do you know what the outcome will be ? Worse than what ? How do you know what the outcome will be ?

]]> By: Alan Webber http://www.medrants.com/archives/4709/comment-page-1#comment-528756 Alan Webber Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:50:03 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/?p=4709#comment-528756 Thanks for the post--I appreciate the words of support! It seems to me that any reasonable discussion of health care reform begins, not with all the different programs/plans that could emerge from the Congress, but with the very real, unarguable costs of the status quo that we're stuck with. And there, it's hard to disagree: the system we have is in crisis. It is bankrupting individuals, over-taxing companies, squandering the country's wealth--and worst of all--the outcomes aren't even close to world-class health care. What we spend and what we get for what we spend don't come close to matching up. Does that mean that any alternative is automatically good? No. But don't oppose change simply because it is change or because it isn't perfect. Measure every proposal against the status quo. If it is better than the status quo, then open your mind to the possibility that change, risky though it is, could result in better economic and human outcomes. Thanks for the post–I appreciate the words of support! It seems to me that any reasonable discussion of health care reform begins, not with all the different programs/plans that could emerge from the Congress, but with the very real, unarguable costs of the status quo that we’re stuck with. And there, it’s hard to disagree: the system we have is in crisis. It is bankrupting individuals, over-taxing companies, squandering the country’s wealth–and worst of all–the outcomes aren’t even close to world-class health care. What we spend and what we get for what we spend don’t come close to matching up.
Does that mean that any alternative is automatically good? No. But don’t oppose change simply because it is change or because it isn’t perfect. Measure every proposal against the status quo. If it is better than the status quo, then open your mind to the possibility that change, risky though it is, could result in better economic and human outcomes.

]]> By: pcb http://www.medrants.com/archives/4709/comment-page-1#comment-528750 pcb Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:26:41 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/?p=4709#comment-528750 so the details of the proposed "change" don't even matter? If the status quo is bad, anything new is better? come on, we can be a little more sophisticated than this. there is good change, there is bad change, and there is everything inbetween. so the details of the proposed “change” don’t even matter? If the status quo is bad, anything new is better?

come on, we can be a little more sophisticated than this.

there is good change, there is bad change, and there is everything inbetween.

]]> By: Web Media Daily – July 27, 2009 http://www.medrants.com/archives/4709/comment-page-1#comment-528749 Web Media Daily – July 27, 2009 Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:02:47 +0000 http://www.medrants.com/?p=4709#comment-528749 [...] The high cost of avoiding health care reform…   DB’s Medical Rants [...] [...] The high cost of avoiding health care reform…   DB’s Medical Rants [...]

]]>