“He began by calling RI’s health care system one of the best in the nation," said AG Neronha, "Once again showing how out of touch this Governor is with the reality of the situation."
There is nothing in McKee's plan that demonstrates an understanding of the real issues. The real issue is that health care costs in Amerkica are twice what they are elsewhere, and we get lousy results. What most proposals are is rearranging the deck chiars on the titanic rather than moving away from the iceberg. We have to restructure how we develop drugs, who benefits from the research, the nature of the commercialization of government funded research (if such thing surivives the anti science nutcases in DC) But we also need to rebalance the payments between specialities and primary care. More resources in primary care is necessary, and in the long run save us lots of money. We also need to rein in the power of the insurance compnaies, preferably by eliminating them And pharmacy benefits managers are beyond evil. the whole concept is evil. just a grasping hand in the middle
Once again, Neronha is the one who understands the problem, and knows better what it will take to start to turn this situation around. And, once again, Mc Kee sounds like he does not have a clue!
Apparently either doctors or adminstrators at Anchor were trying to head off the problem in advance of Anchor's decision to close without any strategy for helping its members find new doctors. They approached Neronha. Neronha was apparently trying to deal with the problem for weeks. When he approached our supposed leader, Governor Mckee's response was, "This is the first I've heard about it." People have known that medical care was in crisis here. But like the Washington Bridge and Housing crisis, Mckee is completely asleep at the wheel. His passive attitude-or is it just laziness?-is a disaster for Rhode Island.
There is nothing in McKee's plan that demonstrates an understanding of the real issues. The real issue is that health care costs in Amerkica are twice what they are elsewhere, and we get lousy results. What most proposals are is rearranging the deck chiars on the titanic rather than moving away from the iceberg. We have to restructure how we develop drugs, who benefits from the research, the nature of the commercialization of government funded research (if such thing surivives the anti science nutcases in DC) But we also need to rebalance the payments between specialities and primary care. More resources in primary care is necessary, and in the long run save us lots of money. We also need to rein in the power of the insurance compnaies, preferably by eliminating them And pharmacy benefits managers are beyond evil. the whole concept is evil. just a grasping hand in the middle
Once again, Neronha is the one who understands the problem, and knows better what it will take to start to turn this situation around. And, once again, Mc Kee sounds like he does not have a clue!
Apparently either doctors or adminstrators at Anchor were trying to head off the problem in advance of Anchor's decision to close without any strategy for helping its members find new doctors. They approached Neronha. Neronha was apparently trying to deal with the problem for weeks. When he approached our supposed leader, Governor Mckee's response was, "This is the first I've heard about it." People have known that medical care was in crisis here. But like the Washington Bridge and Housing crisis, Mckee is completely asleep at the wheel. His passive attitude-or is it just laziness?-is a disaster for Rhode Island.