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Oggie · #61 07/07/10, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Bearfootfarm

It's not so much about what he did, but more about the "who", the "how", and the "why":

http://content.usatoday.com/communit...nald-berwick/1

He doesn't make policy and recess appointments are not uncommon.

If he goes goofy in the position, he won't last long.

Not the worst appoint Obama has made, by far.

megafatcat · #62 07/07/10, 05:14 PM

Such high praise demonstrates your lack of confidence in the one who appoints. Schedule an indoctrination immediately, and in the interim double your intake of koolaid.

Bearfootfarm · #63 07/07/10, 10:37 PM

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He doesn't make policy and recess appointments are not uncommon

If the one IN CHARGE doesn't make policies, then why is his position needed at all?
If these weren't "positions of power" why would it even make the news?

I think you're reaching here

Oggie · #64 07/08/10, 02:22 PM

If want to read the full text of the Berwick speech that most of your talking-point websites are taking dribs and drabs from, here's the link: http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sites3/page....=781&pid=32953

He hardly sounds like much of a radical socialist, especially when it comes to his suggestions as to how to change the British system to make it better.

Bearfootfarm · #65 07/08/10, 03:25 PM

From YOUR source and his own words:

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free at the point of care

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any health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized, and humane must – must – redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and less fortunate.

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taxation as the funding

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modern social theory

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social planning

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government is a source of hope

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I cannot believe that the individual health care consumer can enforce through choice the proper configurations of a system as massive and complex as health care. That is for leaders to do.

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your remarkable social project

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the NHS isn’t just technical – it’s political

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You cap your health care budget, and you make the political and economic choices you need to make to keep affordability within reach

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You plan the supply; you aim a bit low; historically, you prefer slightly too little of a technology or service to much too much;

Label him "socialist" or not, I still don't like how he thinks

Oggie · #66 07/08/10, 03:34 PM

I'd like to see these changes:

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1. First, put the patient at the center – at the absolute center of your system of care. Put the patient at the center for everything that you do. In its most helpful and authentic form, this rule is bold; it is subversive. It feels very risky to both professionals and managers, especially at first. It is not focus groups or surveys or token representation. It is the active presence of patients, families, and communities in the design, management, assessment, and improvement of care, itself. It means customizing care literally to the level of the individual. It means asking, “How would you like this done?” It means equipping every patient for self-care as much as each wants. It means total transparency – broad daylight. It means that patients have their own medical records, and that restricted visiting hours are eliminated. It means, “Nothing about me without me.” It means that we who offer health care stop acting like hosts to patients and families, and start acting like guests in their lives. For professionals made anxious by this extreme image, let me simply remind you how you probably begin every encounter when you are following your best instincts; you ask, “How can I help you?” and then you fall silent and you listen.

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3. Third, strengthen the local health care systems – community care systems – as a whole. What you call “health economies” should become the core of design: the core of leadership, management, inter-professional coordination, and goals for the NHS. This should be the natural unit of action for the Service, but it is as yet unrealized. The alternative, like in the US, is to have elements – hospitals, clinics, surgeries, and so on – but not a system of care. Our patients need integrated journeys; and they need us to tend and defend those journeys. I believe that the NHS has gone too far in the past decade toward optimizing hospital care – a fragment – and has not yet optimized the processes of care for communities. You can do that. It is, I think, your destiny

Bearfootfarm · #67 07/08/10, 05:39 PM

That doesn't negate any of the other statements.
Those are just his "feel good " rhetoric

Where have we heard this LIE before?:

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It means total transparency