Comments on: The Most Dangerous Thing in American Health Care is Barack Obama Carrying the Dartmouth Atlas http://blogs.kqed.org/healthyideas/2009/06/12/the-most-dangerous-thing-in-american-health-care-is-barack-obama-carrying-the-dartmouth-atlas/ Californians Weigh In on Health Care Reform Tue, 30 Aug 2011 02:57:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: donald wilhelm, III http://blogs.kqed.org/healthyideas/2009/06/12/the-most-dangerous-thing-in-american-health-care-is-barack-obama-carrying-the-dartmouth-atlas/comment-page-1/#comment-155 donald wilhelm, III Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:53:28 +0000 http://blogs.kqed.org/healthyideas/?p=244#comment-155 If greater choice and higher quality will resullt from less gov't. control, not more, when will private insurors update the seriously obsolete model for all present health care, based on diagnosing symptoms? This does not work for chronic disease, since symptoms emerge after 20 years of full-body damage caused by poor lifestyle. Thus, 85% of all health costs are completely unnecessary, if a new model is adopted that urgently and forcefully addresses poor lifestyle choices. This is easily and cheaply done. See my site, freehealthreform.com . The advantage of a gov't. option is that it could be a research arm of CDC, enrolling underserved people who don't have the option to "walk" to another plan if they are asked to use some effort towards personal responsibility for health. Then, the private sector would gain a cultural mandate for change, and the health crisis is solved. If greater choice and higher quality will resullt from less gov’t. control, not more, when will private insurors update the seriously obsolete model for all present health care, based on diagnosing symptoms? This does not work for chronic disease, since symptoms emerge after 20 years of full-body damage caused by poor lifestyle. Thus, 85% of all health costs are completely unnecessary, if a new model is adopted that urgently and forcefully addresses poor lifestyle choices.
This is easily and cheaply done. See my site, freehealthreform.com .
The advantage of a gov’t. option is that it could be a research arm of CDC, enrolling underserved people who don’t have the option to “walk” to another plan if they are asked to use some effort towards personal responsibility for health. Then, the private sector would gain a cultural mandate for change, and the health crisis is solved.
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