President Obama is counting on electronic health records to help modernize the nation's dysfunctional health care system, improve the quality of care and reduce its cost.
PAGE A26 MILES TO GO ON E-HEALTH RECORDS President Obama is counting on electronic records to help modernize the nation's dysfunctional health care system, improve the quality of care and reduce its cost.
But they do not have the right to expect that our bloated and dysfunctional health care system will pay for their care if they are not willing to contribute to the cost.
It is shocking evidence of how our complicated, dysfunctional health care system can't deliver recommended care to many patients who could benefit, because their doctors are asleep at the switch.
To the Editor: Nicholas D. Kristof promotes the misunderstanding that our dysfunctional health care delivery system equates to wretched health care and underestimates the devastation that obesity has had on our country's health.
"This is a most dangerous brew: a dysfunctional health care system, vast numbers of Americans without access to health care, a severe recession, overextended and highly stressed hospitals, and the prospect of a nasty new killer virus," Dr. Redlener said.
So while Baucus was denying the rest of America an opportunity to truly fix our dysfunctional health care system, he did see fit to include in the ACA bill full health care coverage for those sick and needy souls in and around Libby under Medicare, regardless of their age -- a provision that might be called "Medicare for All...The People of Libby, Montana".
AMERICA'S dysfunctional health care financing system needs to be reformed.
And hasty readmission is an indicator of an inefficient, if not dysfunctional, health care system.
Ms. McCaughey does not, however, mention the ways in which our fragmented, dysfunctional health care system has worsened this problem.
Paul Krugman (column, Nov. 25) writes that the weakness of General Motors and other American manufacturing companies reflects "a dysfunctional health care system and an unsustainable trade deficit".
