A framework for a better health care system

Atul Gawande, who wrote "Getting there from here (excerpted, lavishly, here)," testified before Congress today. Coverage shouldn't be the only goal of health care reform.

The mission for value. Just providing coverage, however, will not remedy the failures of decision-making and execution that are hobbling American health care. A better health system will not be possible unless that system has components structured to serve one critical and singular mission: To measurably reduce failures and increase successes in health care delivery, and thereby increase the value for the country of our massive investment in health care.

Read the whole thing excerpt and, with that in mind, consider the views of those determined to maintain the status quo.