Who do You Trust

From a USA Today survey: who do you trust to fix health-care.
Doctors, 77%
Hospitals, 64%
University professors or researchers who study health care policy, , 61%
Obama, 49%
Democratic leaders in Congress, 37%
Republicans leaders in Congress, 32%
Pharmaceutical companies, 30%
Health insurance companies, 26%

Well I'm not so sure about doctors, less so hospitals, both play the escalation game with insurance companies. I would trust even less the legislators and would give 0% for Pharmaceutical and Insurance companies -- both major problems. A fix would require a Warren Buffet or Bill Gates --half morphed int an Alexander Haig -- at NIH and there is no such person.

My proposal, for what little it is worth: let the states tackle the problem utilizing their medical schools. You would have 50 different solutions. One or more of them would work. It's the scientific method for a solution to what basically amounts to a scientific problem -- that is, once you chase the clarion vulchers out of the system.

The tsunami of new bio-medical discoveries presently unfolding in research laboratories demands both an educational component and collegial management by leaders in medical science. (Translational Medicine)