Hughesair (Inflection Point)

Retired physician and air taxi operator, science writer and part time assistant professor, these editorials cover a wide range of topics. Mostly non political, mostly true, I write more from a lifetime of experience and from research, more science than convention. Subjects cover medicine, Alaska aviation, economics, technology and an occasional book review. Globalization or Democracy documents the historical roots of Oligarchy, the road to colonialism and tyranny

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Friday, March 05, 2010

Health Care, who do you trust?

From a USA Today survey: who do you trust to fix health-care.
Doctors, 77%
Hospitals, 64%
University professors or researchers who study health care policy, , 61%
Obama, 49%
Democratic leaders in Congress, 37%
Republicans leaders in Congress, 32%
Pharmaceutical companies, 30%
Health insurance companies, 26%

Well I'm not so sure about doctors, less so hospitals, both play the escalation game with insurance companies. I would trust even less the legislators and would give 0% for Pharmaceutical and Insurance companies -- both major problems. A fix would require a Warren Buffet or Bill Gates --half morphed int an Alexander Haig -- at NIH and there is no such person.

My proposal, for what little it is worth: let the states tackle the problem utilizing their medical schools. You would have 50 different solutions. One or more of them would work. It's the scientific method for a solution to what basically amounts to a scientific problem -- that is, once you chase the clarion vulchers out of the system.

The tsunami of new bio-medical discoveries presently unfolding in research laboratories demands both an educational component and collegial management by leaders in medical science. (Translational Medicine)

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