The American health care system is more expensive than any other, without providing better results. The cure, says Brent James, is measurement. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala - via Nicholas Kristof, Tim O'Reilly, Publish2 (U.S.), New York Times (Most Emailed)
Looks at medicine from a scientific viewpoint, which hardly any of the political yammerers and those who chronicle them do. We need more articles like this that get into the "why" of health care and discuss way to make it better - faster - cheaper. I was also pleased to see the reference to Edwards Deming. I also would have liked to see discussion of how the electronics industry has managed to develop ever-better, ever-cheaper devices, but the medical industry has not -- but perhaps that's a difference article, one (sigh) I may need to write myself at some point.
I'm tired of politicians talking about health care as a political issue instead of working to see how we can do it better.