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Empathy, Taxes, Personal Responsibility, and Healthcare Reform – A Timely Debate
Featured in: Quality Advocate
Contentious debate between a health insurance person and me about the best path for healthcare reform
In a prior post, I examined the how empathy (i.e., the ability to put oneself in the shoes of another), which is often lacking from the healthcare reform debate, ought to be an essential ingredient in the decisions our country makes. My discussion about the need for greater empathy triggered a contentious debate between a man working in the insurance industry and myself.
Our heated debate are at the following two links:
- http://curinghealthcare.blogspot.com/2009/07/empathy-taxes-personal-responsibility_27.html
- http://curinghealthcare.blogspot.com/2009/08/empathy-taxes-personal-responsibility.html
We cover a wide variety of topics, including:
- Whether empathy is a good thing when it comes to healthcare
- If private insurance is better than a public plan
- Whether healthcare is a right
- The validity of claims by Wendell Potter--a health insurance PR exec turned whistleblower--who is speaking out against the underhanded tactics of the health insurance industry
- Capitalism, free market attitudes, and deregulation
- Whether high-value/cost-effective care is important and how to measure it
- Whether consumers should be the ones to judge if they received the best possible (i.e., most cost-effective) care
- Whether healthcare is a “system” or a bunch of unrelated systems
- And more.
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Dr. Steve Beller is a clinical psychologist, author, consultant, researcher, software inventor, and CEO/President of National Health Data Systems. His life goal is to work with others to help re-direct the course of humankind, so we don't have to be ashamed of the world we’re leaving our children.
Toward that end, Dr. Beller spent the past 25 years in creative pursuits, including inventing unique software systems, writing about the healthcare crisis and cures, and developing close personal and professional bonds with fine individuals across the globe.
Dr. Beller's current activities are devoted to (a) consumer empowerment through comprehensive mind-body-environment health assessments yielding deep understanding, “information therapy” supporting self-maintenance and knowledgeable decision-making, and guidance from collaboration with health professionals & peers; (b) continuous improvement of sick-care and well-care safety, effectiveness and efficiency through use of evolving evidence-based guidelines; (c) international efforts to improve the health and well-being of the elderly and impoverished; (d) establishment of cost-effective information exchange architectures using next-generation technologies; and (e) supporting first responders and trauma department staff in pandemics, disasters and terrorist attacks.
For more, please see his extended bio here.
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Steve
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Beller
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Short Bio
Dr. Steve Beller is a clinical psychologist, author, consultant, researcher, software inventor, and CEO/President of National Health Data Systems. His life goal is to work with others to help re-direct the course of humankind, so we don't have to be ashamed of the world we’re leaving our children.
Toward that end, Dr. Beller spent the past 25 years in creative pursuits, including inventing unique software systems, writing about the healthcare crisis and cures, and developing close personal and professional bonds with fine individuals across the globe.
Dr. Beller's current activities are devoted to (a) consumer empowerment through comprehensive mind-body-environment health assessments yielding deep understanding, “information therapy” supporting self-maintenance and knowledgeable decision-making, and guidance from collaboration with health professionals & peers; (b) continuous improvement of sick-care and well-care safety, effectiveness and efficiency through use of evolving evidence-based guidelines; (c) international efforts to improve the health and well-being of the elderly and impoverished; (d) establishment of cost-effective information exchange architectures using next-generation technologies; and (e) supporting first responders and trauma department staff in pandemics, disasters and terrorist attacks.
For more, please see his extended bio here.
