Yesterday Health Dialog had an off site meeting for the company and the guest speaker was Matthew Holt the founder of "The Health Care Blog"
http://thehealthcareblog.com/
Matthew did a great job engaging the participants with a ton of information on trends and thoughts on our current Health Care situation. His analogy that we are currently a stalled bus sitting on the road is pretty accurate for the US. I am sorry for my question on defensive medicine.... ;) When half of your family are medical professional and then another group of them are litigation lawyers, what do you expect from a guy who is a compliance dork? When you said defensive medicine was only a small portion of the problem I will disagree with you because in the next breathe you stated that liability reform should have been included also in the ACA. I think defensive medicine has a bigger impact than some people want to give it credit for. If 30% of the test and procedures are a waste why do you think they are being done? A good chunk of them is because the doctor is afraid of being sued. But now we have created a culture of being pro-actively "safe" along with it being a good deal financially for the medical community since they get paid for those additional items.
Saying sorry for a mistake by a doctor may make sense but when you have 1000's of lawyers trolling the internet and TV looking for litigants the system is screwed up. Europe doesn't have this problem since most of their stuff is capped or they have to pay damages if they lose. It's just a piece of the puzzle that needs to get addressed.
Other than my 2 cents I think Matthew did an incredible job talking about where we are headed down the road.
P.S Matthew your red jacket is a true fashion statement.
