I'm healthy. I've always been healthy. I could probably use some cosmetics, but I've only ever had one cavity in my life, and even crashed my motorcycle but never broke a bone. As a feral kid growing up in the 'hood, I had measles, mumps, chicken pox, rubella and impetigo. Rubella was the worst and I really did feel like I was going to die. As a young adult, my injuries came from landing on my ankle wrong after a volleyball spike. I once really jammed up my trapezius doing rows with a dumbbell so that my scapular abduction was faulty. It became painful to raise my hand to give dap, and that MRI cost me a bit. I also used to be a somewhat serious cyclist. I loved hills so much that my quads bulked up to the extent that they pulled my kneecaps off center. These days, my biggest concern comes from sleeping on the couch and throwing out my back. Every time I go to a new city for any length of time, I get some different kind of flu bug, but I've never been bedridden for more than a week in my life. So what do I know about health care or health care reform?
I know it's expensive. And I know a lot of people think it's impossible.
I suspect that we'll hear a great deal about it over the next year or so. Since I've got nothing else to do today - well I could go to the Magic Kingdom but room service is just fine here at the Dolphin, and I'm not feeling Goofy today - I might as well exercise my fingers here.
I've had one primary angle on dealing with health care before, and that had to do with open pricing. I was and still am generally under the impression that there are huge inefficiencies in the health care system because I cannot give anyone the health profile I just gave you and have them tell me what that makes me, with regard to my anticipated health care needs, and thus what plan I should get. In other words, there is no supply and demand in the health care industry.
I already know that on the IT side, health care is hugely FUBAR. But because of that, it's a huge opportunity I wish I understood more about. But I learned a little bit this year. One of the things that I learned is that as a percentage of revenue, hospitals carry a great deal of bad debt on their books. I have an interest in understanding the Business Performance Management systems in all industries, but Health Care is particularly interesting to me.
Let's see what we can find out.
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