remedies of scale

Critics of the current health care business system look to Europe, to France and England for example, for social remedies. People search for a cure.

Having benefited from the National Health Service (NHS) in England for over four years, I admire the service, national intent behind it, and having paid the dear taxes, I appreciate the funding model. But we cannot transplant the NHS here like an organ. Our body politic is very different and our business circulates on a very grand and more sophisticated scale.

What seems to be a policy debate is also a business opportunity. While the town halls fill with citizens and the politicians whistle-stop through their constituency landscapes, more interested in re-election, than health care reform, I believe there are savvy business people and non-profit entrepreneurs building business plans to care for the currently uninsured.

People are developing business plans rather than legislation. You will not see those plans in newspapers, because the pitching is occurring in boardrooms, and at lunches to perspective investors; the business strategies circulating among the many lobby groups funded well by the health care businesses housed in very well-appointed digs in D.C.

While we have much in common with European countries, our nation, our united, United States, our amazing interdependent private/publicly-traded/non-profit health care industrial (and international) complex cannot perish from the earth any time soon without serious shareholder meetings and private investor changes.

For the socially minded: Your socialist-like models may work in small measure over time.

For shareholders: Your stock will continue to rise.

For the uninsured: ____________________

For politicians: How will your stand affect your re-election?