Health Care Reform

In an interesting article on health care myths, authors Shannon Brownlee and Ezekiel Emanuel place the blame for our sky-rocketing health care costs:

Most of the relentless rise can be attributed to the expansion of hospitals and other health-care sectors and the rapid adoption of expensive new technologies -- new drugs, devices, tests and procedures. Unfortunately, only a fraction of all that new stuff offers dramatically better outcomes.

They claim there are models out there for doing it right--the Cleveland Clinic, the Mayo Clinic, etc. This is something we can do and must do, as a part of the national reform ahead.