On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Gruss Gott<[email protected]> wrote: > Hey, last I heard, you worked in the Health Informatics industry. In > other words you're an industry shill too right?
My sector is going to do well no matter who wins the healthcare reform battle in Congress right now. We do connectivity between systems and information portability and I don't have any business skin in this game. As a citizen, however, I have some strong views and opinions about what is best for our country. Professionally, it isn't a huge deal one way or another. The biggest government initiative that is going to effect me is the implementation of the HITECH act. > But I say we try a reasonable conversation without the emotional screeds. Tried that with you. Didn't work. And no, I'm not going to go back to your contrived UPS example. The debate is well framed and established at the national level. There is ample research showing that a public plan option reduces the cost of ensuring health care coverage for people in this country. I support covering health care for all Americans. I support doing it efficiently and for the least cost. The insurance industry is arguing that competition from a public option is unfair. I don't care and I don't believe we owe them a profit. If they can do better, awesome. If not, then fail. There are many other factors to consider in the overall area of reducing health care costs. There are many discussions to be had about things like evidence-based care, quality of care metrics, rationing of care, etc. I'm happy to discuss those things and we can probably find a number of areas of agreement. The current discussion is largely about health insurance, however. Juda ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:300258 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
