" A Radical Idea for Health-Care Reform: Listen to the Doctors " - Oops, I Mean Listen to the Corporate Executives, Directors, and Lobbyists

It has been the season for health care reform in the US since at least the Nixon administration.  We have endlessly discussed the unholy triad of health care dysfunction: rising costs, declining access, and stagnant quality.These days, with all the furor over whether Obamacare should be repealed and replaced, let alone, or improved, it is still the season for health care reform.  Last weekan article by David Ignatius in the Washington Postentitled " A Radical Idea for Health Care Reform: Listen to the Doctors, " appeared.   Since onHealth Care Renewal we are all about trying to uphold physicians ' professional values, I thought this deserved a closer look, with the hope that it would provide some down-to-earth wisdom from physicians in the real clinical world.Background - Doctors Views on the Causes of Health Care DysfunctionAs we recentlydiscussed, we began the project that led to the establishment ofHealth Care Renewal because of our general perception that physician angst was worsening (in the first few years of the 21st century), and that no one was seriously addressing its causes.  Our first crude qualitative research(1) suggested  that physicians ' angst was due to perceived threats to their core values, and in turn that these threats arose from the issues this blog discusses:concentration and abuse of power, health care leadership that isill-informed,uncaring about or hostile to the values of health care professionals, incompetent,deceptiv...
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