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age], and she certainly did almost everything to make everyone
an enemy. But at least she tried a systemic approach. And what
we are now doing is trying again to patch, and it won’t work.
The Japanese do it, the Germans do it, the British do it—and
it won’t work. We have to face up to the fact that the health
care we have today has become a totally different animal from
the health care in which all of us have grown up. And then one
doesn’t say, “How do we change this or change that?” Then one
says, “What are the specs? What are the basic needs the system
has to satisfy?” The fact that it is economically out of control is a
symptom. It is a symptom of a very serious disorder. Traditional
approaches don’t work.
From a speech given at Harvard Medical School.