(by Joe Flower, from TheHealthCareBlog.com)We can actually say what a better healthcare system would look like, if we look at healthcare in the United States as a complex adaptive system stuck in a Nash equilibrium. The ideal reformed healthcare system would be...
The reaction in certain quarters to the healthcare reform provisions of the stimulus bill now clearing Congress lays bare the nature of opposition to the forthcoming fight for real change in healthcare: It will be viciousness at the top of the lungs. It will be...
(From Hospitals and Health Networks Weekly, January 28, 2009)Merely covering all Americans in some fashion to pay for the system we have now would fall far short of creating a system that works. In fact, that would take far more than federal legislation, but the...
This is big! Color me amazed: The principal association of U.S. health plans, America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) has announced that it will support healthcare reform that would lead to insuring all Americans, on one condition: That all Americans be...
When John McCain talks about healthcare on the campaign trail, he often challenges people who point to Canada’s universal healthcare system as preferable to the U.S. system to “ask the Canadians how much they like it.” That’s a fair challenge....
The majority of Americans are in favor of a universal healthcare system for the U.S. In fact, a majority has favored it since Harry Truman sat in the Oval Office. So why don't we have it? An analysis of polls published a few months back shows...
