A reader questions this post:
"It's not always necessary to render the existing model obsolete. It is the existing one that allows for future improvement. How can we have a successful future without the older existing models to build on or with? Too often we forget that wisdom is acquired by knowledge, and understanding of the past."
We don't disagree. The issue here is about whether fighting the existing reality will produce the changes we need, or whether it would be more fruitful to take what we've learned, the wisdom we've acquired within the current system, and create an entirely new model. Patchwork reforms haven't resulted in a system that works for people. The system in place now is not compassionate because in only gives some people access.
It may just take a second great Renaissance - a completely new way of seeing ourselves and our environment - to achieve a truly compassionate health care system that delivers high quality care to all who need it.
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