Gail Makes a Good Point!

Gail-

Your point is well taken. In fact, many of the small businesses that managed to provide benefits to employees have been forced to pull back to survive. This further reinforces the point that long term reliance on employment as the entry point for health coverage is ill conceived. A fully productive American work force needs a health care system that is forward looking, anticipatory, preventive , effective and stable. To accomplish this, we will need to rationalize our approach, be organized nationally, and execute in a manner that supports relationship based care locally. That is a tall order but doable. Continuing to kid ourselves that it can be accomplished solely on the backs of employers, places all of us at medical, political, social and economic risk.

Mike