WholeFoods CEO on Health Care Reform

[stef_tm]

With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches over the next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible for both, we are rapidly running out of other people's money. These deficits are simply not sustainable. They are either going to result in unprecedented new taxes and inflation, or they will bankrupt us.

While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction—toward less government control and more individual empowerment. Here are eight reforms that would greatly lower the cost of health care for everyone:

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html

Comments

[titania82.livejournal.com]

I had to post the link to my facebook. The details were something that I strongly echo!

As someone involved in the pop version of statistics on a daily basis (Six Sigma)- and based on all the training classes I've been submitted to- the Congress/President are clearly solving the wrong problem. Its as if they skipped the define phase of their project.

Solve the problem of why exactly it costs over $5K for a low risk woman to birth a child and then you might be able to make some inferences about what should be done as far as health care reform is concerned.

[stef-tm.livejournal.com]

Hyman mentions Demming!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-mark-hyman/why-health-reform-will-fa_b_248986.html