The Higher Facts of Health Care

Health care reform at the turn of this new century was a known social need around the globe. Nations were betting more and more of their budget on caring for the elderly, the traumatized, and the hurt, without creating adequate reserves. Here in the United States, after the election of President Obama, we could no longer afford doing without health care, but we could not afford its future price at the quality we expected. Thus, let’s pay attention to this modern-day and frugal compromise. It is a harbinger of things to come; we should pay attention to it.

Social history is always reactive, a rebalancing of the roles of government, innovations in science and technology, and the logic of markets. President Obama arose from a historic context: his election was the culmination of a three-decade response to the policies of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. But the real lesson is to be found in corporate mansions, well outside of the great capitals of the world. Doing more with less is becoming the mantra of General Electric, Walmart, Google, and other global giants that I refer to as World Inc. firms. (Please see abundant free resources on this concept at www.WorldIncBook.com.)