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FamDoc Likes Fixing American Healthcare

February 18th, 2008 by DrRich

DrRich is gratified by the very favorable review of Fixing American Healthcare posted last week by FamDoc. According to FamDoc, DrRich “goes where few other authors on healthcare reform/transformation can go.” FamDoc also points out that the book “gives us a blueprint for getting out of the mess, and (DrRich’s) solution starts where it should, with the patient and the patient-doctor relationship.”

Regular readers of this blog by now might have pegged DrRich as one who merely carps. This would be a reasonable surmise, given that this blog is dedicated almost totally to demonstrating the underlying problem - covert rationing in all its multiform disguises - and hardly at all to discussing a solution. There’s a reason for this, which is: any real solution - whether it’s the one DrRich develops in his book, or some other real solution - depends first and foremost on the American public (not every person, but a critical mass) understanding just how pervasively destructive covert rationing truly is, both to us as individuals and us as a society. Any real solution will require us to make the unavoidable healthcare rationing open, fair, effective, and efficient.

Furthermore, individuals who understand that the prime directive of the medical-industrial-government complex is to separate them from healthcare, whenever possible and by any means it can possibly get away with, can then take steps to protect themselves and their loved ones from the lethal dangers of this covert rationing. (The book talks about how to accomplish this, as well.)

So the aim of The Covert Rationing Blog is to move a few people - as many as possible, but realistically, a few - closer to this self-preservational understanding. Thanks to FamDoc for reminding DrRich to remind anyone who might be interested what this blog is all about.

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