Q: Then who's going to pay for medicines?
"The costs of medications are so high. Who's going to pay for people to get their meds?" This question was posed to me by someone who currently works as a nurse in a psychiatric ER. One of the reasons medication and medical device costs are so high is because Big Pharma and Big Devices drive up the prices. We know from looking at other countries that the very same medications and technologies have huge markups here comparatively. Why is that? It's partly because we are requir
Start With Kids; Their Providers are Nice
In devising the P.S.Y.C.H. plan, I've run into quite a few folks who say, "Oh my god, Americans would never go for this." And I agree wholeheartedly. Trying something drastically different that affects Americans' pocketbooks that they can't immediately digest would take a miracle (and I'm no Steve Jobs). We are a people that need to "test the waters" first. And while typically our children are not test subjects, I think they'd be the perfect way to pilot a universal health de
Facing Our Own Worst Enemy
What a rich learning experience this has been for me. I started disseminating the P.S.Y.C.H. plan information about the website to friends and family and then to Facebook. From there, I began approaching patients and colleagues. Knowing at some point that I would need to aggressively market the idea to the "movers and shakers" who command the ears of millions in mainstream media and the pocketbooks of the government, I began contacting policy analysts, foundations, congress p