Op-Ed Contributor - Health Care’s Infectious Losses - NYTimes.com
"In the end, any health care reform that does not address the pervasive waste and the associated burden of needless suffering for patients and staff alike will give us little to celebrate."
This is a very thoughtful piece that goes at the heart of sidestepped yet critical issues related to the current health care debate.
My experience with health care services in a variety of continents is that the claim that "America's health care is is the best in the world" is a piece of propaganda that is not related to the reality of the average person accessing those services. Like everywhere else it may only be the case for people with Money and/or Power.
Giving insurance to everybody without knowing what the insurance actually covers or without sound methods to control the cost of insurance via waste control as Mr. O'Neil suggests or cost effective incentives for disease preventing life styles will do very little to improve the average person's well being.
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