Comments on: Can health care be bailed out with money alone? http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/can-health-care-be-bailed-out-with.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 20:59:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/can-health-care-be-bailed-out-with.html#comment-88553 Anonymous Tue, 09 Dec 2008 01:00:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/12/can-health-care-be-bailed-out-with-money-alone.html#comment-88553 If more money was a cure for what ails American medicine, then American medicine would have no ills, as it is by far the most generously funded healthcare system in the world. In fact, one could logically conclude that some of it's ills are diseases of affluence which have fostered dysfunctional attitudes and wasteful practices. If more money was a cure for what ails American medicine, then American medicine would have no ills, as it is by far the most generously funded healthcare system in the world. In fact, one could logically conclude that some of it’s ills are diseases of affluence which have fostered dysfunctional attitudes and wasteful practices.

]]> By: Chuck Brookshttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/12/can-health-care-be-bailed-out-with.html#comment-88552 Chuck Brooks Mon, 08 Dec 2008 19:42:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/12/can-health-care-be-bailed-out-with-money-alone.html#comment-88552 Even more fundamentally, patient/customers are going to have to take on individual responsibility for maintaining their health, with or without 'help' from the insurance cartels or government mandates. In medicine, like all other activities, there are no free lunches. When this happens then the current entiitlement mentaility can be replaced with real insurance.<br/><br/>Chuck Brooks<br/>FutureWare SCG Even more fundamentally, patient/customers are going to have to take on individual responsibility for maintaining their health, with or without ‘help’ from the insurance cartels or government mandates. In medicine, like all other activities, there are no free lunches. When this happens then the current entiitlement mentaility can be replaced with real insurance.

Chuck Brooks
FutureWare SCG

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