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U.S. Health Care Policy ... Time to Contemplate a New Healthcare Landscape!
Colleagues,
Between the Health IT stimulus finding, and now reports that consensus is forming among a closed door policy group on Capital Hill, the time is rapidly approaching to contemplate a fundamentally altered health care delivery landscape. For those historians of American health care, I would recommend to your attention, Paul Starr's Pulitzer Prize winning book "The Social Transformation of American Medicine". Check in particular the chapters related to Medicare adoption in the 60's. I think we are at another pivotal point in American healthcare system. Here now...
As reported in the New York Times...Since last fall, many of the leading figures in the nation’s long-running health care debate have been meeting secretly in a Senate hearing room. Now, with the blessing of the Senate’s leading proponent of universal health insurance, Edward M. Kennedy, they appear to be inching toward a consensus that could reshape the debate.
Many of the parties, from big insurance companies to lobbyists for consumers, doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies, are embracing the idea that comprehensive health care legislation should include a requirement that every American carry insurance ... The ideas discussed include a proposal to penalize people who fail to comply with the “individual obligation” to have insurance.
The 20 people who regularly attend the meetings on Capitol Hill include lobbyists for AARP, Aetna, the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the American Cancer Society, the American Medical Association, America’s Health Insurance Plans, the Business Roundtable, Easter Seals, the National Federation of Independent Business, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, and the United States Chamber of Commerce.
Read on at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/us/politics/20health.html?pagewan...
ENJOY!
CC
Between the Health IT stimulus finding, and now reports that consensus is forming among a closed door policy group on Capital Hill, the time is rapidly approaching to contemplate a fundamentally altered health care delivery landscape. For those historians of American health care, I would recommend to your attention, Paul Starr's Pulitzer Prize winning book "The Social Transformation of American Medicine". Check in particular the chapters related to Medicare adoption in the 60's. I think we are at another pivotal point in American healthcare system. Here now...
As reported in the New York Times...Since last fall, many of the leading figures in the nation’s long-running health care debate have been meeting secretly in a Senate hearing room. Now, with the blessing of the Senate’s leading proponent of universal health insurance, Edward M. Kennedy, they appear to be inching toward a consensus that could reshape the debate.
Many of the parties, from big insurance companies to lobbyists for consumers, doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies, are embracing the idea that comprehensive health care legislation should include a requirement that every American carry insurance ... The ideas discussed include a proposal to penalize people who fail to comply with the “individual obligation” to have insurance.
The 20 people who regularly attend the meetings on Capitol Hill include lobbyists for AARP, Aetna, the A.F.L.-C.I.O., the American Cancer Society, the American Medical Association, America’s Health Insurance Plans, the Business Roundtable, Easter Seals, the National Federation of Independent Business, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, and the United States Chamber of Commerce.
Read on at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/us/politics/20health.html?pagewan...
ENJOY!
CC
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