When will we be rid of our current system of rationed health care through the county systems, to fully integrated 93% covered health insurance as Massachusetts currently has as we still have over 7 million people uninsured in California?
Yesterday I was invited to a Webinar of people working on what is perceived as the needs of healthcare. One would think we would attack this from every angle but only two points of port are embarked from. One port is the IT end of this. Apparently it is a huge issue to getting the information technology understood and standardized. The other port is clinics being born. This is happening in LA apparently and both these efforts are laudable, but that is it, and clearly not enough. We are not putting a dent in the uninsured in the state nothing in that vein is talked about other than as a footnote, and talk is cheap.
We are clearly shown as fools with PhD’s and Medical doctors having complex websites and complex vendor relationships. Here is one simple item that shouldn't sit well, “favorite nation status” bids. If they get one dime of Federal money they are breaking the law. In these hard times for California, I am amazed we are still looking to outsource IT products we need right here. And what will happen when they get cheap? It will have systemic failures. Like Defense, all contractors have to be American companies run and worked by US citizens, not some foreign country that will sell us more lead tainted plastics. This is what our tax dollars are paying for. You tell me do you smell a rat?
We can do much better, we can submit to what Massachusetts has done and succeeded with in job creation a healthier population probably very effectively dealing with drug addicts and alcoholism. We are about to spend millions of dollars in health care and not doing one thing for the poor and the uninsured. Shame on this 30 person effort.
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