Near the end of my last post are these three paragraphs:
“Furthermore, I do not believe we would even be having any discussion at all about healthcare reform except that corporate costs for health insurance overwhelm American corporations in the global arena.
Unless we can develop a system that will actually change total healthcare costs, the debate will not be over for large American corporations or for American workers’ whose jobs go overseas because of high healthcare costs.
The real goal of U.S. healthcare reform should be to remove Switzerland from its position as the world’s second most expensive healthcare system. With careful planning, there is really no reason this could not happen.”
The question then becomes, are Access and Solvency mutually exclusive? Well, they are not. The Germans, Dutch, French, Japanese, Australians, Irish – and all other industrialized nations – prove other wise.
And unless our own debate ends with lower healthcare costs, the debate will have been pointless.
