tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11212947.post111046346407834503..comments2023-08-05T05:24:46.493-04:00Comments on Working Families Blog: A Sick SystemUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11212947.post-1110465215880108552005-03-10T09:33:00.000-05:002005-03-10T09:33:00.000-05:001199/GNYHA had a great proposal for a pay to play ...1199/GNYHA had a <A HREF="http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:B6M9ADpFDZcJ:www.gnyha.org/press/2004/pr20040113.pdf+1199++HEAL&hl=en" REL="nofollow">great proposal</A> for a pay to play system in NY that would have been a giant leap toward universal health insurance.<br /><br />But that wouldn't be enough. We also need is a real commitment to change the way doctors and hospitals practice medicine--people get the same tests over and over again because doctors don't know what other doctors have already done. <br /><br />Whatever it is, it's going to be a lot of hard work on a lot of different fronts. While I give the Syracuse Post-Standard credit for seeing that there's a problem, they seem to think there's an easy fix (as does Bush, with all his talk of evil trial lawyers, and savings accounts so you can "own" your health insurance). I don't think it's a good idea to encourage people to look for simple solution to the really complex problems in the healthcare system, because that's just encouraging people to get taken by a con man. I mean, insurance companies said managed care would be a really easy solution to the problems in healthcare. And today, the system is still broken, but the insurance companies are much richer...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com