The Myth of Prevention
In case you missed it, there was a very interesting article in the June 20, 2009 Wall Street Journal on healthcare reform. The big take away for me from this article was a physican making the point, in print, in a major publication, that healthcare costs need to decrease. Not just increase more slowly, but decrease, in order to make healthcare reform affordable. The author, Abraham Verghese, busts a couple of myths about some of the cost containment strategies (prevention and electronic medical records) curently being proposed, but does not necessarily come up with any new solutions.
A highly recommended read regardless of your political persuasion.