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Yesterday I caught the tail end of a show on NPR’s Marketplace on health care reform. There is of course lots of talk about this right now with all the potential changes coming down the pike from the American Congress and President Obama. I found this interview particularly interesting because it was with George Halvorson who is the CEO of Kaiser Permanente. I always like to hear what people who are in the health care industry think about the nationalization of health care so my ears perked right up when I heard what they were talking about.

I am usually against nationalizing health care but I want to remain open minded and rethink things as much as possible. My main interest is more pragmatic and I would like to be able to have a health care system that is capable of giving the highest quality of care to the most people. I realize that in any system there are going to be downfalls and problems but we need to think of which is the best system which gives us the most upside and the least amount of downsides.

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