The Secret Problem with Healthcare




Interviewer: How do you think we can solve them?

Taylor: You missed a question.

Interviewer: What do you mean?


Interviewer: *Gives me the “go on” look*





2 thoughts on “The Secret Problem with Healthcare”

  1. This is exactly where I feel that I’m at. I don’t know how I feel about all the reforms because I don’t know how I feel about the current situation either. The complexities and intricacies of the healthcare scare the general public from going out of their way to research and gain understanding. Many physicians don’t fully understand it either!

  2. Jake, I have felt the same way for the longest time. The good news, though, is that I am starting to feel like I’m getting a grasp on what I’d like to see happen with our healthcare system. The focus so much is on how to pay for it and how to improve access. But both of those problems will be taken care of if healthcare can transform itself to a lower-cost industry (and I believe it can). If it does that, then the problem of how to pay for it will be mitigated and the access problem will start to resolve itself too. (Remember, the main reason people either can’t get insurance or choose not to get insurance is because it is crazy expensive!) I say “transform itself,” but I don’t think that means we should just employ a hands-off policy as we passively watch and wait for healthcare to fix itself. No, there are definitely things the government can do to help. And there are things academia can do to help. I think this topic will be what I blog about for the next little while.

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