Thursday, July 15, 2010

~ Cato

The guiding principle of Donald Berwick, recess-appointed head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services:
"The unaided human mind, and the acts of the individual, cannot assure excellence. Health care is a system, and its performance is a systemic property."

Precisely – that’s why we cannot entrust it to you (or any committee). You are right, health care is a system, an economic system. As such, it is governed by the aggregate decisions of individuals. You are trying to change that system into a bureaucracy.

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