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Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick

The Recovering Engineer

As I look at the health care reform debate, I see a number of these behaviors in the way the discussion(s) is (are) proceeding. I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system. And, frankly, it makes me sick.

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Why The Health Care Reform Debate Makes Me Sick

The Recovering Engineer

As I look at the health care reform debate, I see a number of these behaviors in the way the discussion(s) is (are) proceeding. I am not a doctor, pharmacist, attorney, drug company executive or any other person who has deep insights into the intricacies of our health care system. And, frankly, it makes me sick.

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Obama: The Great Answerer

CO2

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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Obama: The Great Answerer

CO2

Our nation is in need of answers on just about every front: health-care, terrorism, ethnic rifts, Iraq, financial industry concerns, the home foreclosure epidemic, infectious diseases, and climate change. Of course, Obama does know more about health care than most, if not everyone, at a given town hall meeting.

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

trillion, or almost 18% of its GDP , on health care — that’s $10,000 per person, twice as much as any other country in the industrialized world. We know this because in India innovators have found ways to deliver high-quality care to everyone — rich, poor, and virtually penniless — and make money doing it.

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Health Care for 1% of the Cost

Harvard Business Review

the approach is to spend more money on major technological advances and come up with innovative products and solutions. One of his technological breakthroughs was to make artificial legs from recycled plastic yogurt bottles. He also knew that professionally-skilled technicians were in short supply and too expensive to hire.

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Reflections on Dr. Deming’s Hospital Notes – What Has Changed Since 1990?

Deming Institute

It’s often not much more complicated than studying the patient’s needs, studying the work, and respecting and engaging team members to have a say in how processes, technology, and spaces are designed and utilized. The use of random Lean tools isn’t transforming any health system. Mark Graban.

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