Jana Svoboda writes another account of our health care system’s lack of care — sometimes with fatal results (“Our mental health system is broken,” Sept. 4).
I constantly wonder how many such accounts it will take to provoke folks to make a meaningful change.
We could design a health care system geared toward securing perfect health for everybody. If someone believes it’s best to design a system with a lesser goal, let them make the case for it.
I cannot see how we can be hurt by constantly striving for perfect health for everyone. For one thing it will always be easy to measure how well we are doing. Categories of our failures can be analyzed, and efforts restructured accordingly.
What could be cheaper, too? It doesn’t take a financial genius to figure out how much someone with perfect health spends on health care — the closer we get to the goal of perfect health for everyone the less it will cost to run our health care system.
So let’s get to it. Time’s a wastin’ — and so are lives.
