Whether the task is fixing health care, upgrading K-12 education, bolstering national security, or a host of other missions, the U.S. is better at patching problems than fixing them.
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We are spending most of our time in American health care fixing the mistakes that either we in the profession are causing or our patients are, without recognizing it, causing to themselves.
The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.
No number of repairs will be able to fix Obamacare. The website is the least of Americans' worries.
Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.
Health care in America, despite all you hear, still offers us citizens one of the most efficient and highest quality systems in the world. But it's expensive, and it's only getting worse.
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.
I think we do better as a country when we go step by step toward a goal, and the goal in this case should be reducing health care costs.
American healthcare faces a crisis in quality. There is a dangerous divide between the potential for the high level of quality care that our health system promises and the uneven quality that it actually delivers.
Fixing health care and fixing the economy are two sides of the same coin.
I think we can work through a lot of these issues.
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