A Great Column in “The Atlantic”
September 18, 2009 – 9:00 am by ScottSchoenvogelDavid Goldhill wrote an article for the The Atlantic titled “How American Healthcare Killed my Father”. In the article, he uses his father’s death from infection in a NY hospital to discuss healthcare reform and consumerism. David is a self-professed Democrat but he is concerned about reform’s effort to disassociate consumerism from the healthcare service process.
Here is his last paragraph:
“Before we further remove ourselves as direct consumers of healthcare -with all of our beneficial influence on quality, service, and price – let me ask you to consider one more question. Imagine my father’s hospital had to submit the bill for his “care” not to a government bureaucracy but to my grieving mother. Do you really believe the hospital – forced to face the victim of its poor quality service, forced to collect the bill from the real customer – wouldn’t have figured out how to make its doctors wash their hands?”
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