Apparently I'm not the only one who thinks the Henry ford Health System's E-Prescribe system is a model for the nation to emulate.
Health cost savings backed
Gingrich calls for national reform
April 4, 2006
BY KATIE MERX
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER
Former U.S. Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich applauded a southeast Michigan effort to save lives and save dollars through collaboration, but said it is just a beginning and called for nationwide reform of the health care system...
"You are as close as any region of the country at beginning to be the health system of the future," Gingrich told about 300 conference attendees. He cited regional advances in electronic prescribing and the collaboration among industry, labor, government and the health industry to improve quality and lower costs in the region's health system...
"I am very impressed with what you have begun to do," Gingrich said. But achieving widespread systemic change at the rate needed to save American businesses from collapsing from the enormous burden of health care costs is "going to be an enormous challenge."
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The current system of employer-funded healthcare puts this country and its businesses at a competitive disadvantage in the global market. While I'm not a big fan of Newt's I'm glad to see that there's at least one registered Republican out there who doesn't think the cure for America's healthcare ills is as simple as throwing more public money at a handful of well-connected public companies.