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American Healthcare: Caught in a Bad Romance

Putting together the newsletter, I found a post by Ian Morrison with the above title on THCB. Best excerpts below.

I want your Ugly. I want your Disease
I want your Everything, as long as it’s Free.

—America’s leading contemporary philosopher, Stefani Germanotta (aka Lady Gaga)

Insight comes from unlikely sources. Lady Gaga nailed the health reform dilemma. We have a healthcare delivery system that is an orgy of profligacy and excess that offers the false promise of making ugliness, disease and death all optional. And, we the public love all of it, as long as it’s free, at least to us as individuals.

And later:

Doesn’t the premium come out of my pocket as taxpayer, employee or individual? How can I have everything, as long as it’s free?

We are caught in a Bad Romance with healthcare.

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