12 · Acai Berry on March 21, 2009 05:35 AM ·

I think this would be great. I am on of the people that don’t have Health insurance and for only 37$a month that’s something I would be able to afford

No. But I am tired of reading your dumbsh*t comments.

After all, we all know one of them will ge chosen. These people might be great to your standards but they are not good enough to be in the positions you’re speculating about.

such as increased focus on preventive care and disease management programs.

actually, it will be in all probability. at present, doctors are reimbursed much less for preventive care activities and chronic disease management: patient education, follow-up, taking phonecalls etc. coming up with alternative reimbursement structures for physicians and measuring the quality of care will be very contentious.

btw, here is the most basic and the simplest article on healthcare reform i’ve come across recently, which is incidentally co-authored by rahm emanuel’s older brother, a bright guy.

i wonder how much clout obama himself has within the AMA? isn’t it headquartered in chicago?

This part of a new healthcare plan would probably be relatively non-controversial.

The thing that will lead to knock-down drag out fights that make the carnage on the Sonal Shah post seem like the gentle wafting of down from a Victoria’s Secret angels’ pillow fight is Daschle’s proposal to create a body similar to the one in Britain, that will both negotiate down drug prices, and make prioritization decisions about the tradeoffs between treatment cost and quality of remaining life. These complex decisions can of course be captured conveniently under the rubric of “socialized medicine” (supported only by Hindu hating lefties) against which Joe the plumber will lead a fight based on the ideals he has imbibed from one of his five favourite books, no, not the four on flushing and toilets, but the one that is crap, sorry, I meant Von Mises’ masterpiece.