A BIGGER PICTURE LOOK AT HEALTH CARE REFORM

If you’ve been reading through some or any of Silkin Management Group’s various blog sites, you’ve seen a variety of articles concerning the health care reform bills being debated and voted upon in the House and Senate. Most of those articles have also referenced writings on the subject by a variety of authors.

Since we at Silkin are attempting to stay on top of this vital issue for our clients, we are continually reading different publications that have information about this legislation. Today I read a very interesting article in the New York Times written by David Brooks. I thought his viewpoint was worth passing on as it gave a bigger picture look at the whole health care reform activity.

As Mr. Brooks says: “But the general view among independent health care economists is that these changes will not fundamentally bend the cost curve. The system after reform will look as it does today, only bigger and more expensive.

As Jeffrey S. Flier, dean of the Harvard Medical School, wrote in The Wall Street Journal last week, “In discussions with dozens of health-care leaders and economists, I find near unanimity of opinion that, whatever its shape, the final legislation that will emerge from Congress will markedly accelerate national health-care spending rather than restrain it.”

I suggest you read the whole article as it might give you a different perspective on what is going on. I believe we need fundamental health care reform in this nation. What I don’t believe is that the legislation that seems inevitable to be passed will truly accomplish that. Rather it seems that it will add more government costs and regulations rather than fundamentally change our system for the better. Our government is already fiscally insolvent. It seems to me that this legislation won’t help the matter and only add to the problem for our children and grandchildren.

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Gary Crawshaw
Consultant
Silkin Management Group