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> Fixing our health-care system will make us more economically secure. It won't make us much healthier. It will if that means we can now afford treatment...

• DanielBMarkham 17y ago
  In a 2002 paper for the journal Health Affairs, Michael McGinnis, Pamela Williams-Russo, and James Knickman conclude that the breakdown goes something like this: "genetic predispositions, about 30 percent; social circumstances, 15 percent; environmental exposures, 5 percent; behavioral patterns, 40 percent; and shortfalls in medical care, 10 percent." To a certain degree, yes. But it's not a status-quo game. The money for health insurance that is currently not being paid must come from somewhere. The interesting question is whether we're prioritizing the discussion around the actual effective use of those dollars (assuming we're going to spend this money come hell or high water) to pay for people getting healthy? Or to create a new type of health financing system?