HMS Dean Jeffrey S. Flier, in the Wall Street Journal:
Speeches and news reports can lead you to believe that proposed congressional legislation would tackle the problems of cost, access and quality. But that’s not true. The various bills do deal with access by expanding Medicaid and mandating subsidized insurance at substantial cost—and thus addresses an important social goal. However, there are no provisions to substantively control the growth of costs or raise the quality of care. So the overall effort will fail to qualify as reform.
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Here we have the head of the Harvard Medical School criticizing Congress’s health care reform initiative, when he has not the foggiest idea on how to make our system better, in spite of the fact that there are many working models out there which are working reasonably well, better than ours, at lower cost, for their citizens. In my view, this man is a failure!
Hmmm….Perry vs. the dean of the Harvard Medical School on health care. I don’t know who to choose…..
I can’t keep up with Republicans. So… now being associated with Harvard is good rather than elitist?
You’ve got to have more to say than that, Pan. Elitism is elitism. Simply being associated with Harvard does not make one elitist. Being the dean of HMS does qualify you, however, to offer your opinion on health care reform.
Send a letter, Perry, to him and ask your usual: “What’s your solution?” (Even if one has been proposed ad nauseum … we know that sort of stuff means squat to your growing senility.)
What we know is this:
The only reason – ONLY REASON – that Dave posted this is that Dr. Flier questioned whether or not the HRC would grow costs
If the Head of Harvard Medical School had come out FOR the current bill, would it have persuaded Dave to support it or would he have published it on his blog? Of course not.
Pandora, you’re right:
Agree with Wingnutia = Harvard is great! Beat Princeton!
Disagree with Wingnutia = Harvard is a bunch of “over-educated” elitist liberal eastern radicals.
Had he come out for it, it wouldn’t have been newsworthy.
Any comments on the merits? Or will you be simply attacking the messenger’s messenger with vague, pithy insults?
Disagree with Wingnutia = Harvard is a bunch of “over-educated” elitist liberal eastern radicals.
Steaksauce, you forgot to say, “Go, Princeton!”
vague, pithy insults.
Go Penn!
I can agree with that: Go Penn!
Dave, if anyone should be participating in finding a solution, it is the Dean of HMS.
Instead, he prefers to sit on the sideline and throw arrows, which qualifies him as Hube’s hero and your pundit.
Pandora is correct!
Not to take away from the thread, but I’d like to know what Steaksauce and Perry have against Columbia, Yale, Brown, et al. Damned elitists!
Whoops, that emoticon should have been this ->
Having spent a few winters in Central New York, I’m more of a Cornell man myself.
Nothing against anyone, RS, just loyalty to the Alma Mater, back in the good old days, when Penn was affordable, and back still further, when Penn had a good football team!
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