Adviant on Health Care Reform – We asked for this!

Adviant principal Paul Bazell says "we (in the U.S.) demanded longer and better lives, and our health care system delivered.  Now we don't want to pay for it!"  Paul offers these additional insights… All that the health care reform measures being contemplated can accomplish is to accommodate a different group of people than the system accommodates today.  Differences in age, genetics, culture, and values assure that no single health care program will ever fit the needs of all.  Accordingly, when a health care program accommodates a particular group of people, then other groups are automatically disenfranchised. Individual responsibility does more to reduce health care costs than industry reform ever will.  Statistically, our health care system has done such a splendid job at meeting our demands for longer and better lives that many Americans have become complacent about their health.  The health care industry reform measures being contemplated will not change this. Two key opportunities for reducing U.S. health care costs have been overlooked for political reasons.  They are (1) get employers out of the middle (of people’s health insurance decisions), and (2) substantive tort reform.