Design Observer :: Join the Discussion http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/-and-broke/24258/ en-us Design Observer Group 2011-01-25T03:07:43-05:00 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0
cs, You are right that I am not strictly comparing like-with-like. The tough challenge is to focus public [and design] debate on the health *outcomes* we deem, as a society, to be desirable, and affordable - rather than, as now, limit debate to which - among equally ineffective and unafordable inputs - to choose.]]> John Thackara http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/-and-broke/24258/#comments 2011-01-25T03:07:43-05:00 U.S. healthcare funding style is what they are proposing unfortunately... at the behest of insurance companies, the same insurance companies that bought the Republican drive to remove a public option from the Obama initiative.
]]> cs http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/-and-broke/24258/#comments 2011-01-17T12:56:01-05:00
Also an interesting bookend to China rolling out its new Stealth fighter, a human-carrying craft that has all the future potential of the great battleships of the 1930s - ie, a ceremonial has-been that props up a major builders of such ornaments world-wide.

Sadly, health care in the US is further resembling the massive hospital building campaigns that took place overseas in connection with oil exploration: a bricks & mortar alternative to guns used to control a population.

One only needs to observe a shiny new dialysis center, being replenished on the hour with corporate-supplied diabetic medicines, to "heal" the increasing obese people feeding at govt. subsidized fast-food facilities to see just one unholy vicious cycle.]]> Mr. Downer http://observatory.designobserver.com/feature/-and-broke/24258/#comments 2011-01-17T12:05:08-05:00