Jim Pinkerton (one of the smartest --- and tallest – players in the healthcare policy arena) has penned some very nice words about CMPI’s second annual Odyssey Awards dinner on his blog Serious Medicine Strategy.
And his focus is on one of our favorite four-letter words: Hope.
Hope in New Jersey
The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest (CMPI) held its second annual Odyssey Award Gala Thursday night, and amidst all the discussion of health policy and medicine, here was one mega-topic on the program: Hope.
Sadly, hope is in short supply in Washington these days. On healthcare, which was supposed to be the signature agenda item of the Obama administration, as well as the Democratic majority in Congress, we now see that both the executive and legislative branches are thoroughly bogged down in unpopular bureaucratese. Leaders on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue are still trying to pass healthcare "reform" that the American people manifestly do not want. What the American people do want health, but health is not what Washington is interested in advancing. Yes, that seems strange, but Washington is a strange town.
Jim’s complete post can be found here:
http://seriousmedicinestrategy.blogspot.com/2010/02/httpwww.html
Project Hope
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