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Healthcare Reform with a Different Perspective

Healthcare reform has dominated the news and for good reason. Our current system is broken with an unsustainable pace of costs rising at 5.5% per year for the next ten years.

One party wants to revamp the entire system and start over. The other wants to use HSAs and other accounting tricks to shift costs. The problem is that both approaches are simply band aids and do not address the actual problems with our healthcare system.
It is time for a different perspective on healthcare. A perspective that accounts for our healthcare system's broken infrastructure; a provider compensation model that rewards quantity over quality; and a system that puts profits before wellness.  Any new system must address all three of these issues or we will continue to see costs rise.

In order to achieve a sustainable system that provides universal access with quality care we must embrace interoperability, data analysis, and endogenous economic theory. Anyone proposing a system that does not embrace these tenets has not done their homework.

Live Long and Prosper, America is a Two Tier Health System that this author advocates as a national solution. It could also be implemented as a stepping stone to a single payer system. To read the Executive Summary, click here.

To review the Executive Summary for a Utopian (but not unobtainable) single payer healthcare system for the State of California currently entitled Healthy CA, click here. A video with details on how it would actually work is available here.

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