My guess would be that Dr. Dean got involved in politics partly from a genuine desire to reform healthcare from a doctor’s perspective. Like Hillary, this alone would be enough to see to it he never came close to Health and Human Services. The profits in health “care” must be protected.

The computer records of all of our medical history,
DNA, possible organ-doner matches?

Scarey, in spades! “The better to see you with,
me dear.”

My husband and I have worked in healthcare, labs and the development, installation and implementation of e-records for many than years. Hospital administrators and physican practices have millions of dollars already invested into one system or another. Granted, they were often done in a piecemeal fashion and don’t communicate. Training and implementation of multiple systems cost healthcare workers countless hours out of their workday. Who or what is going to incentivize the users to change all this out and start over, and to what degree of savings could this be done? Hospitals and medical practices are already battling reimbursement issues, including the vast red tape that comes with insurance firms.
They are looking for savings in all the wrong places.

Enter: Pelosi in her Academy Awards outfit (the lifetime achievement has-been kind) at BO’s Greek Week and Rangel (rules are for you little people, not Dictator Hammock of Ways & Means) are despicable.

To prepare for their roles they attended “The Leona Helmsley Charm School”.

And BO’s Thin Skin Theater of the Absurd:

How far away can we get Dean…? Samoa, yeah that’s the ticket.

I guess they could have put him on a space shuttle.

Even if Dean does write a book now, he’s just another Powell or Bush Press Secretary. A willing co-conspirator, an accomplice.

I hope BO enjoys every creepy ass-kissing moment of Eddy Munster Kaine.

Kaine will feel “The Thin-skinned One’s” wrath soon enough.

That will be the sequel.

His health care policy is futile. Computerizing records? Many places already have computerized records in some form. The problem is that the computers don’t talk to each other if one is outside that particular network. Therefore, your private practice provider would need in-office access to every hospital system, private lab system and free standing radiology business within their own regional area. This isn’t a bad thing, but it will take at least 10 years, with huge up front expenses and won’t provide any one with any insurance. It will save the insurance company though on some repeat spending for duplicate tests, but the cost of all of this computerization will not be funded by the insurance company. Therefore, we, probably through tax dollars, and the private health care sector with funds that might have went for clinical care, will bear the burden of expense.

Unless something happens we will be in a holding pattern again while people loose their jobs, the deficit continues to balloon without any positive result from the risk, and more people will be without health care.

I knew something was up when Dean spoke up at that symposium on the election in mid November. This was when he expressed outrage about the sexism in the campaign toward Hillary. Everybody said, “too little, too late”, etc. He will know all the DNC players including Donna Brazile, one of the major race-baiters for O’s camp. I wish he would write a tell-all book that would fry all of them. I think we should placate and use him, not shut him up into obscurity.