With all the activity lately on his desire “fix” health care nationwide, ever wonder what President Obama has been reading, of late? There were some recent articles about just that, and if you haven’t seen these articles, we highly recommend them:
This article from Dr. Atul Gawande of Harvard Medical School, published by The New Yorker on June 1 started it all: The Cost Conundrum, What a Texas town can teach us about health care
By June 8, President Obama had seen the article and it “dramatically affected his thinking” according to The New York Times: Health Care Spending Disparities Stir a Fight - includes coverage of his talks with Senators
June 9: Blogs began to notice: President Obama read Atul Gawande’s excellent piece on Healthcare
June 12: President Obama speaks at a town hall meeting in Green Bay, WI, citing McAllen’s costs and compares them to costs at Mayo Clinic: Text of Obama’s remarks and an article about this speech
June 13: an editorial appeared in The New York Times: Doctors and the Cost of Care
June 14: Gawande fans at Seton Hall University School of Law write about it on their weblog: Why McAllen Texas Kant be the answer to health reform
After you read any one of those, you’ll see that Dr. Gawande’s thinking, despite being a doctor himself, is squarely pointed at physicians. Reportedly, President Obama sees the logic in that, at least in some way.
