September 10, 2009 | Keith Lemer , Business Week: In Your Face
BETHESDA, MD -- Reader Keith Lemer Writes: President Obama did an excellent job sharing his ideas and beliefs about the health care system and changes last night. Unmentioned details that are imperative to discuss, however, are transparency, employer and employee engagement, transportable medical records and increased competition. Wrapped around the removal of impediments to competition, all of the above will allow the private market to thrive. The call for increased accountability on the part of the nation's businesses requires more than a mandate to insure -- give cost-cutting technology to the entities paying the bills, as they have the greatest motive to find waste, overcharging, lower prices and alternative medical solutions. The end result of this is that the private market will force the insurers to be competitive. When transparency and alternatives are absent, consumers suffer from higher prices, fewer services and less choice - which is where we stand right now.
Mr. Lemer's comment was in response to the Obama: 'The Time for Bickering Is Over' article written by Catherine Arnst on September 9, 2009.
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