Agile Health Care Reform

January 12th, 2010 | by caprice |

As we head down the road of revising our health care system, there are pros and cons to practically every angle of the legislation. Many people have doubts as to whether anything can really work as evidenced by the snapshot of opinions (over 1100 at the time of this posting) on a MedPage survey.

A very recent article regarding the ability to do a quicker, iterative review and change of negative effects of the legislation, England Journal of Medicine, wherein we are also reminded of the statistically poor mortality outcomes we have in the United States relative to our expenditures. Othere changes thought by many but not covered in the legislation include tort reform, addressing access issues, increased insurance transparency via separation from employment, and piloting of changes before nationalizing them.

But then again, some of the issues are reflective of our life style choices which can be hard to legislate. Perhaps that is where education steps in? At the end of the day I still remain in favor of education over legislation but am hoping for the best.

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