Something that was ignored throughout the long ponderous, hollow debate over healthcare reform is clearly articulated by Jim Pinkerton:
"Healthcare is a great driver for the economy. It's the biggest employer, and medicine--not "health insurance"--is a product that people want to consume, sometimes desperately, ravenously. And not just Americans, but people around the world. So if that's not an economic engine, what is? Isn't that what we want?
But the argument has to be made. And alas, since, 98 percent of the discussion over healthcare has been over controlling costs--that is, shrinking the healthcare sector, perhaps provoking a recession in one of the few vibrant sectors of the economy--then it's little wonder that the country doesn't think of healthcare and medicine as an economic driver.
Serious Medicine Strategy has always been an economic strategy--now is the time to make that case."
seriousmedicinestrategy.blogspot.com/2010/01/democrats-slam-brakes-on-health-care.html
"Healthcare is a great driver for the economy. It's the biggest employer, and medicine--not "health insurance"--is a product that people want to consume, sometimes desperately, ravenously. And not just Americans, but people around the world. So if that's not an economic engine, what is? Isn't that what we want?
But the argument has to be made. And alas, since, 98 percent of the discussion over healthcare has been over controlling costs--that is, shrinking the healthcare sector, perhaps provoking a recession in one of the few vibrant sectors of the economy--then it's little wonder that the country doesn't think of healthcare and medicine as an economic driver.
Serious Medicine Strategy has always been an economic strategy--now is the time to make that case."
seriousmedicinestrategy.blogspot.com/2010/01/democrats-slam-brakes-on-health-care.html
