HCHP

I missed this when it came out a couple weeks back, but it's still worth a read now. Dr. Rob Stone, director of Hoosiers for a Commonsense Health Plan - who spoke to DFMC last year - made a statement at the Wellpoint Shareholders' Meeting that hits all the right points and frames the issue brilliantly. As he wrote on the HCHP blog:

Who recalls the poem “Ozymandias” by Shelley from high school English class? (you can Wikipedia it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias) The poem tells the story of a traveler finding a broken statue in the desert, a forgotten wreckage. On the pedestal the words appear: ”My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” This was our message to the stockholders of WellPoint. Yes, you may seem high and mighty today, but soon you will be dust and wreckage in the desert. This is how we should be reframing the question when we hear, “But the insurance companies are so powerful. We will never be able to see real change. They will crush us.” The last lines of the poem:

“Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

I've added the HCHP blog to our blogroll - stop by and read up on the great work that this group is doing.