Comments on: The Divide http://www.seefirstblog.com/2009/11/12/the-divide/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-divide Insights into the uncertain world of healthcare Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: A Fine Mess « See First Blog http://www.seefirstblog.com/2009/11/12/the-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-717 A Fine Mess « See First Blog Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:08:01 +0000 http://www.seefirstblog.com/?p=1609#comment-717 [...] the “serious system-wide failings” she identified.  Or maybe it’s not.  The gulf between politicians’ rhetoric about the health care and the reality of how it works [...] [...] the “serious system-wide failings” she identified.  Or maybe it’s not.  The gulf between politicians’ rhetoric about the health care and the reality of how it works [...]

]]> By: US Employers: Not Crazy to Pay for Health Care « See First Blog http://www.seefirstblog.com/2009/11/12/the-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-704 US Employers: Not Crazy to Pay for Health Care « See First Blog Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:20:48 +0000 http://www.seefirstblog.com/?p=1609#comment-704 [...] written before that part of the problem with the reform bills in Congress is the huge divide between what benefits professionals know about the real world of health care and the things that [...] [...] written before that part of the problem with the reform bills in Congress is the huge divide between what benefits professionals know about the real world of health care and the things that [...]

]]> By: The Divide, Continued « See First Blog http://www.seefirstblog.com/2009/11/12/the-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-498 The Divide, Continued « See First Blog Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:53:26 +0000 http://www.seefirstblog.com/?p=1609#comment-498 [...] that they seem to prefer to spend so much time behind closed doors in Washington, or on TV, and so little time out talking to people actually in this business to see what works and what [...] [...] that they seem to prefer to spend so much time behind closed doors in Washington, or on TV, and so little time out talking to people actually in this business to see what works and what [...]

]]> By: MKirschMD http://www.seefirstblog.com/2009/11/12/the-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-656 MKirschMD Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:48:51 +0000 http://www.seefirstblog.com/?p=1609#comment-656 “What’s wrong with health care reform isn’t that people have bad intentions.” <br><br>I agree that folks don’t have nefarious intentions, but various stakeholders are trying hard to protect their own interests. The health care system is an unstable equilibrium with forces pulling in every direction. The beast is held in place by physicians, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, patient advocacy groups, the government, trial lawyers and insurance companies. Even these individual groups are not homogeneous. Physicians, for example, are divided between specialists and primary care physicians who have competing interests in health care reform. Of course, none of the players believe that their intentions are ‘bad’; it’s just that their interests do not overlap. Can we expect a stakeholder to sacrifice its income, or perhaps its survival, to serve the greater good?<br><br>Health care reform is a huge circular tug of war that will have winners and losers. Will the public be one of the winners? I wonder. <br><br>As with any unstable equilibrium, it is unsustainable. How can it stay in place when so many forces are pulling it apart?<br><br>“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois 1858<br><a href="http://www.MDWhistleblower.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">www.MDWhistleblower.blogspot.com</a> “What’s wrong with health care reform isn’t that people have bad intentions.”

I agree that folks don’t have nefarious intentions, but various stakeholders are trying hard to protect their own interests. The health care system is an unstable equilibrium with forces pulling in every direction. The beast is held in place by physicians, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, patient advocacy groups, the government, trial lawyers and insurance companies. Even these individual groups are not homogeneous. Physicians, for example, are divided between specialists and primary care physicians who have competing interests in health care reform. Of course, none of the players believe that their intentions are ‘bad’; it’s just that their interests do not overlap. Can we expect a stakeholder to sacrifice its income, or perhaps its survival, to serve the greater good?

Health care reform is a huge circular tug of war that will have winners and losers. Will the public be one of the winners? I wonder.

As with any unstable equilibrium, it is unsustainable. How can it stay in place when so many forces are pulling it apart?

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois 1858
http://www.MDWhistleblower.blogspot.com

]]> By: MKirschMD http://www.seefirstblog.com/2009/11/12/the-divide/comment-page-1/#comment-497 MKirschMD Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:48:51 +0000 http://www.seefirstblog.com/?p=1609#comment-497 “What’s wrong with health care reform isn’t that people have bad intentions.” <br><br>I agree that folks don’t have nefarious intentions, but various stakeholders are trying hard to protect their own interests. The health care system is an unstable equilibrium with forces pulling in every direction. The beast is held in place by physicians, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, patient advocacy groups, the government, trial lawyers and insurance companies. Even these individual groups are not homogeneous. Physicians, for example, are divided between specialists and primary care physicians who have competing interests in health care reform. Of course, none of the players believe that their intentions are ‘bad’; it’s just that their interests do not overlap. Can we expect a stakeholder to sacrifice its income, or perhaps its survival, to serve the greater good?<br><br>Health care reform is a huge circular tug of war that will have winners and losers. Will the public be one of the winners? I wonder. <br><br>As with any unstable equilibrium, it is unsustainable. How can it stay in place when so many forces are pulling it apart?<br><br>“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois 1858<br><a href="http://www.MDWhistleblower.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">www.MDWhistleblower.blogspot.com</a> “What’s wrong with health care reform isn’t that people have bad intentions.”

I agree that folks don’t have nefarious intentions, but various stakeholders are trying hard to protect their own interests. The health care system is an unstable equilibrium with forces pulling in every direction. The beast is held in place by physicians, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, patient advocacy groups, the government, trial lawyers and insurance companies. Even these individual groups are not homogeneous. Physicians, for example, are divided between specialists and primary care physicians who have competing interests in health care reform. Of course, none of the players believe that their intentions are ‘bad’; it’s just that their interests do not overlap. Can we expect a stakeholder to sacrifice its income, or perhaps its survival, to serve the greater good?

Health care reform is a huge circular tug of war that will have winners and losers. Will the public be one of the winners? I wonder.

As with any unstable equilibrium, it is unsustainable. How can it stay in place when so many forces are pulling it apart?

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” Abraham Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois 1858
http://www.MDWhistleblower.blogspot.com

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