https://barelyablog.com/your-health-in-state-hands/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://barelyablog.com/your-health-in-state-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-13263 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:41:30 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=31042#comment-13263 The short summary: Not even that bureaucracy can bend the cost curve of health care.

]]> https://barelyablog.com/your-health-in-state-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-13262 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:47:35 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=31042#comment-13262 God help us all.

]]> https://barelyablog.com/your-health-in-state-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-13260 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:24:09 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=31042#comment-13260 Mike – the people with the next to least authority over health care, the physicians (e.g. “health care providers”) are in the lower left. Those with the least control, the “patients” (or, more correctly, the “pre-stiffs”) are in the lower right.

]]> https://barelyablog.com/your-health-in-state-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-13259 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 03:07:06 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=31042#comment-13259 It’s such a simple clear diagram! Does it describe an organization or a process? BTW where is the patient represented? I wonder how many hours some government employee or contractor spent making this chart. Clearly whoever implemented the chart ought to win some sort of useless prize or title as a Power Point Wizard!

]]> https://barelyablog.com/your-health-in-state-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-13256 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:45:40 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=31042#comment-13256 A Death Panel looks like this. Truly Kafka-esque. Lately I have been thinking about who actually writes these thousand-page, labyrinthine bills. With a socialist poison-pill on every other page. Certainly not the politicians; they don’t even read them anymore. Must be the congressional staffs. Just who/what are these people?

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