No matter what the ruling this week on the Great American Healthcare Boondoggle, the debate (and spin) will continue.
A 2006 article from Businessweek read over this morning got me considering some of the other sides of why this is so.
So much of medicine (politics, etc.), even today, remains guesswork.
That said, Dr. David Eddy (featured in aforementioned article) today continues to promote solutions through computer modeling as well as prudence and due diligence before any (particularly such high and mighty) policy recommendations.
Founded in 1992, his Archimedes, Inc. began as a consultancy for Kaiser Permanente.
A watershed for Archimedes came in 2007 when the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded it a $15.6M grant to make the power of the Archimedes Model "accessible to a wider range [of] health policy and healthcare decision makers, more rapidly and less expensively that had been possible in the past."
It would seem to behoove we the voting populace of citizens everywhere to realize that *many* politicians (aka titanic tricksters) have seen us, more or less, as their very own private guinea pigs.
Armed with such knowledge, does it not make some sense, therefore, that we might simply be stuck here (on terra firma with Gaia), forever, striving to embody the elusive, yet commonsensical Hippocratic mantra of "Physician (and patient) heal thyself"?
Prometheus bound: "May I at least have a nice Chianti to go with that?"
