A great nation deserves a great health care system – and that means universal coverage. Everybody in, nobody out. @ShannonBrownlee #lown2017
— Lown Institute (@lowninstitute) May 5, 2017
The Lown Institute’s meeting is taking place as the nation is trying to digest the possible impact of yesterday’s vote in the House of Representatives.
The group’s Right Care Alliance sees the ACA as an inadequate answer to the problems of cost, access and quality. So, their reaction may not include the same kind of outrage you hear from ACA supporters. Lown recently delivered their global perspective in a series of articles in The Lancet .
They started right off this morning with a forceful critique of the AHCA from global thinker Jeffery Sachs .
Follow #Lown2017 meeting on how to “do as much as possible for the patient and as little as possible to the patient” https://t.co/XvMtXZIkpJ
— Tinker Ready (@tinkerrr) May 5, 2017
MT @lowninstitute: Simultaneous crises in health care:
1. Economic inequality
2. High prices
3. Corporatized system #Lown2017— Tinker Ready (@tinkerrr) May 5, 2017
RT @poorcountryboy2: @lowninstitute @JeffDSachs #Lown2017 Huge profits being made. Not an issue of costs. Issue is of price and profits.
— Tinker Ready (@tinkerrr) May 5, 2017
Boston Health News 