Well, today is the day I should have culminated my personal overview of the healthcare system from my point of view; but alas I haven’t had much time to write this week, and reviewing solutions I’ve heard and seen is the hardest part. So, that part is delayed, hopefully just until Monday. In the mean time, check out this post on Snarkmarket, that criticizes some of the more prominent articles of late about healthcare:
These arti cles per pet u ate the belief ram pant in jour nal ism that sys temic change hap pens in sweep ing ges tures. And very, very occa sion ally, it does. But over the past 90 years, almost every sweep ing change pro posed to over haul the health care sys tem has gone down to crush ing defeat. The real changes have been step by step, bit by bit. Even Medicare when enacted was a mere con dolence for the death of the com pre hen sive insur ance sys tem Tru man had envisioned 20 years before.