About 3 months ago President Obama took office and activated the Bat Signal for healthcare reform, alerting legislators and the healthcare industry that the system is in dire need of drastic reform. Actually…none of this is new; Obama just opened the window blinds so that we all could see the Bat Signal that has been flashing for about 20 years already. Half a dozen or so healthcare organizations saw the signal, grabbed their Utility Belts and developed the “Healthcare Reform Plan for President Obama,” committing to $2 Trillion dollars of savings over the next 10 years.
That’s Trillion with a ‘T.’
Happy now Bey-ot-ches?!? The Healthcare crisis is solved! Meltdown averted!! Put away the launch codes!!! I should get off of my high horse and shut this whiny blog down NOW!
But wait in the shadows…can you see it?
HOLY CRAP BATMAN!!!
It's the Joker! That diabolical Joker must have hidden the actual “Healthcare Reform Plan for President Obama” and replaced it with this “Letter to President Obama!” Only the Joker would think it funny to offer a letter full of shell promises and recycled rhetoric in absence of a true plan that would outline Who, What, When, Where and How. Yes, the cunning Joker – stripping out accountability, strategy, direction, statistics, measures, goals, structure – the very elements healthcare requires for true reform. Truly Devious.
The Joker aside, this is why healthcare reform has been a joke and why the healthcare system is a catastrophe. Even at this, the highest levels of the industry the best that these educated, intelligent and distinguished leaders could present was a well-crafted letter. A letter that is light on specifics, absent of accountability, lacking in data and devoid of actual details. Perhaps even more obscene, the letter presents no new ideas, just rehashes the same old solutions that we are still waiting on to be implemented. Simply, it is a letter, not a plan. This is like buying a beautiful woman a drink and then realizing that she is dumb as bricks, has a small moustache, suffers from an acute case of halitosis and worst of all she is your 19 year old first cousin who you haven’t seen since 1996. You just wasted time, energy and effort on a fruitless endeavor. And you’re both are creeped out. And you facilitated underage drinking.
Most of the cynics that have already commented on this letter have concluded that this is mostly political. This effort ensures that these entities get a seat at the table during the crafting of healthcare reform legislation, and therefore a way for them to protect their organization’s interests. If you want to look at the glass half full, at least the industry understands that like Al Green - a change is going to come – and it is best to work for it than against it.
Stay tuned.
That’s Trillion with a ‘T.’
Happy now Bey-ot-ches?!? The Healthcare crisis is solved! Meltdown averted!! Put away the launch codes!!! I should get off of my high horse and shut this whiny blog down NOW!
But wait in the shadows…can you see it?
HOLY CRAP BATMAN!!!
It's the Joker! That diabolical Joker must have hidden the actual “Healthcare Reform Plan for President Obama” and replaced it with this “Letter to President Obama!” Only the Joker would think it funny to offer a letter full of shell promises and recycled rhetoric in absence of a true plan that would outline Who, What, When, Where and How. Yes, the cunning Joker – stripping out accountability, strategy, direction, statistics, measures, goals, structure – the very elements healthcare requires for true reform. Truly Devious.
The Joker aside, this is why healthcare reform has been a joke and why the healthcare system is a catastrophe. Even at this, the highest levels of the industry the best that these educated, intelligent and distinguished leaders could present was a well-crafted letter. A letter that is light on specifics, absent of accountability, lacking in data and devoid of actual details. Perhaps even more obscene, the letter presents no new ideas, just rehashes the same old solutions that we are still waiting on to be implemented. Simply, it is a letter, not a plan. This is like buying a beautiful woman a drink and then realizing that she is dumb as bricks, has a small moustache, suffers from an acute case of halitosis and worst of all she is your 19 year old first cousin who you haven’t seen since 1996. You just wasted time, energy and effort on a fruitless endeavor. And you’re both are creeped out. And you facilitated underage drinking.
Most of the cynics that have already commented on this letter have concluded that this is mostly political. This effort ensures that these entities get a seat at the table during the crafting of healthcare reform legislation, and therefore a way for them to protect their organization’s interests. If you want to look at the glass half full, at least the industry understands that like Al Green - a change is going to come – and it is best to work for it than against it.
Stay tuned.
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