The guy who invented this would do a better job of healthcare reform than a bunch of bought and sold politicians.
The Democratic healthcare craziness scares me in two primary ways. First, I’m sure I’m the guy they want to pay for it. Second, as someone suffering from a chronic lifetime injury, I look forward to medical advancement. I need new medicines and new diagnostic/repair technology. And they won’t come as fast, or at all, in a government run politically driven health care system.
Dean Kamen, uber-inventer and general smart guy, has related thoughts:
Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We’re developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people’s lives. We’re developing pharmaceuticals that alleviate the need for surgery and eliminate the volatile effects of diseases. We’re making the surgeries that are necessary ever less invasive. You can get a stent through your femoral artery all the way up into your heart and fix a blockage without surgery. I’d say, if we have a crisis, it’s the embarrassment of riches.
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We now live in a world where technology has triumphed, in many ways, over death. The problem with that is that it’s enormously expensive. And big pharmaceutical giants and big medical products companies have stopped working on stuff that could be extraordinary because they know they won’t be reimbursed, according to the common standards. We’re not only rationing today; we’re rationing our future.
Read the whole thing. Too bad Dean Kamen & WalMart aren’t coming up with our new healthcare system.