Re: rural health symposium

[Bob Hoffmann <escape@alt-escape.com>]

At 11:47 AM 2/5/2001 -0800, Steve Cooke wrote:
>         About 50 people attended Saturday's discussion of rural health 
> issues on
>the Palouse. ....Health care seems like a good example of a system of 
>interrelated
>activities that trips up on laissez faire economics. Without an
>overview/plan there is no one entity responsible for looking at the big
>picture.

This reminds me of something I heard on "Talk of the Nation" (NPR) a little 
while ago.  The guest was some significant figure in the global economic 
system.  He seemed to run a major hedge fund, whatever that is.  Any way, 
he said that markets are great for arriving at individual choices, but poor 
at reaching collective choices.  Health care is certainly a great example 
of that.  In the USA, we all exercise our individual choices as best we can 
afford, but collectively, that leaves tens of millions of people without 
medical insurance, while creating a system that costs us more per capita 
than any other health care system on earth.


Bob Hoffmann
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