Making Medicine Smarter is a new website that invites visitors to review numbers and research and then propose solutions to the problems they see. The effort is funded by Medco and describes the site as follows:
Medco has built this site to advance the dialog on healthcare reform. Because we feel that fixing healthcare is not about spending more, but spending smarter. Because smarter simply makes healthcare better.
Given that President Obama is avoiding the Clinton era of health care reform’s approach (in which they told Congress what they wanted, down to every detail), and Congressional members themselves are battling through campaign donation and special interest ties to figure out what all their constituents want and need, the solutions might as well come from us.
Here’s a recent, intersting story about Medco’s role in health care right now.
Disclaimer: I know the website designers who alerted me to the launch and are hoping people will start contributing ideas. Otherwise, I have zero connection to the project, and I certainly don’t have any solutions for health care at the moment – I was totally against managed care in the 1990s to begin with. It always seemed like a total waste of money and a step intended to create an entire new business sector for profit opportunities that had nothing to do with actually administered care.