Welcome to the Mount Sinai Health Policy Initiative (HPI)
This blog is hosted by the Mount Sinai Health Policy Initiative (HPI) to encourage discussion among members within and outside the Mount Sinai community about the challenges in achieving quality, affordable healthcare and prospects for meaningful reform in our time. As students of the health professions, we have chosen to inherit a broken system whose history of present illness (also HPI - Coincidence? I think not!) has been dissected and debated, while we've been holed up in libraries or spending hours in the wards. Our sincere hope is that this blog will encourage students to become more engaged with the issues at stake and to contribute your thoughts to the discussion going on around you.
Healthcare Reform Opinion Piece: The Misguided Quest for Universal Coverage
This is an interesting opinion piece in the New York Times that I think could start some conversations . . .
The Misguided Quest for Universal Health Care
The guy's an editor at National Review, the flagship publication of middlebrow American conservatism. So unsurprisingly his starting point is an ideological opposition to nationalization, that's a given. But it's interesting that even he won't argue against the idea that people should get good medical care even if they can't afford it. He just tries to come up with a way to do that while leaving them uninsured. And his answer, as a Republican, is that we should give more government money to poor people ("direct subsidies"). I suspect that's something Republicans only advocate when they sense their side of an issue is a political loser. So I see this op-ed as kind of encouraging.
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