A Perspective On Healthcare

I found this at KevinMD. It really hits the nail on the head for what's wrong with healthcare in this country. If I can quote the last two paragraphs:

The changes we truly need are political. We need to reconnect people with the public consequences of their private acts. We should curb the subsidization of private insurance. Medicare recipients should pay more of their bills.
But these changes won't happen because people don't want to see the costs. We don't have the health-care system we need, but we do have the one we deserve.

Happy New Year!!!

With best wishes to all of you for a happy and healthy 2006. I hope that this year will bring about badly needed changes to medicine - tort reform, health care specialty courts, reasonable reimbursement. I'm not holding my breath on the last item though. With Congress failing to act on the budget reconciliation bill, and preservation of 2005 Medicare reimbursement rates tied into the firestorm over Medicaid funding, it's not looking good for the hometeam.