"When many cures are offered for a disease, it means the disease is not curable" -Anton Chekhov
''Once you tell people there's a cure for something, the more likely they are to pressure doctors to prescribe it.'' -Robert Ehrlich, drug advertising executive.
"Opinions are like sphincters, everyone has one." - Chris Rangel
Manifest: A reader asks if I have a manifesto for healthcare. Not really. If I did, I'd be running for office. But, I do believe that the ownership plan that President Bush put forth in his convention speech is superior to Kerry's stewardship plan. How could I not? Every day in my practice brings further confirmation of the simple truth that it's human nature to disregard cost when your spending someone else's money. Whether it's my staff ordering supplies or my patients asking for the latest drug they saw advertised on television. And the current "woes of the uninsured" is due entirely to the fact that our health insurance is tied so strongly to employment. Breaking that bond would do much to improve the situation. There's no reason health insurance shouldn't be like auto insurance. posted by Sydney on
9/12/2004 09:18:00 AM
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