CMA Strikes Gold

Today, the CMA BOT voted in our new CEO, Alfred Gilchrist. He is a seasoned lobbyist and manager. I am eager to work with Mr. Gilchrist and try to bring organized medicine back to life. And, to that end..... we know that President Obama will be addressing Congress and the nation on Wednesday night, 9th of September. There is HUGE debate about how to manage his message ... obviously what will the message be? Will he take a leadership position and lay out what he expects to see in a bill? Will he insist on the public option? What will happen if he does? or does not?

The core issue... of course... is the government has no business in the "business" of health care. They have no idea what they are talking about and their interference only adds cost and decreases quality to the opportunities we can offer our patients.

Again... the "product" medical care is what happens amongst doctors and patients. It should be defined by the specific patients' needs. And its value ... can be commoditized... that is so important .. it is NOT the patients or the doctors who should be the commodity .... but the product.... how to get this difficult economic premise to the public ... for another day ... I have to think on that one.

So now back to Moses...I have concluded that on the one hand, we need Moses to lead us out of the desert ... but given today's regulatory obstructions, we would probably never get past the gate into the promised land. I was commiserating with a friend that if Nancy Pelosi were alive when Moses was approaching the "gates," she would pass a law requiring photo ID's of all the tribal members and Moses would have to wait for the camera to be invented before he could finally finish his mission. One of my friends suggested he could have waited for Al Gore to invent the internet ... he could have probably consolidated those 40 years down to 2 or 3 with the right GPS system. So, I think that I am going to change the premise of this next op ed... to reflect that even Moses with the tablets and God at his back would be left in the desert wanting for something if our government were in charge of the "gate charge" in the promised land.

My ended with a lot of reflection and a long conversation with my friend Bre. Oh ... what a smart "cookie" as my mother would say. She talks a mile a minute and you have to really listen to her intently because she says lots of smart things. I think that the two of us could probably save the world ... but the question always remains .. does the world want saving? I just love smart, motivated people ..

More on Bre over the weekend... i have to go home .. talking to Javier Becerra's office in the am.. very excited..... Could be the entre into the democratic caucus... we could get some REAL movement forward.... I hope ... I hope...

Good news..Bob is better... SW does NOT have breast cancer... and the sun will shine tomorrow...