1) Why are Republicans objecting to a “goverment run” Health Care system that they are using now as members
of congress? Maybe they should switch to private system like the citizens they represent?

2) No wonder private health care programs are screeming
holy hell if the have to compete with the same health care program that Congress gives to themselves?

3) Are we getting a health program “just like” to quote
President Obama, congress gives to itself? I’m sure Congress wouldn’t stand for health care system like medicare?

My email to you of August 10, 2007:
“Dear Adam:
I tried to call you from Tel Aviv but got your message about not being “very good at voice mail” so I am following your suggestion to “just send me an email”.
Yesterday I read for the first time the speech on Connecting Americans to Their Health Care that you gave last December at the National Conference sponsored by the Markle Foundation. It totally “blew me away”, as the saying goes; or as my mentor in Medicine would have said, it “brings a tear even to a glass eye”. It was an invigorating and inspiring speech, and all I could keep thinking was:” he GETS it!!!” (”travesty” – YAH- RIGHT ON!)
But firstly, I was terribly moved by and sorry to hear the story about your Mom. Secondly, you were very gracious in thanking our profession (I’m an MD); I think we do try very hard–I’ve worked with hundreds of doctors and overall those I’ve seen have been passionately dedicated to providing optimal care for their patients. And thirdly, the vision you laid out just joyously invigorated me, because I have shared that same vision of a consumer-centric system for much of my career in Medical Informatics.
I am a phyician living in Tel Aviv, Israel. I am Canadian-trained and licensed to practice Medicine in Ontario (Canada), New York State and Israel. I have worked in primary care clinical Medicine for 25 years and Medical Informatics for nearly a decade and a half. About a decade of that was in research and development of electronic medical records, and my area of expertise was in consumer-based medical records and the privacy, confidentiality and security of personal health information on electronic networks (I’ve attached my CV for your perusal)
Forgive me, I don’t mean to be forthright or rude –I’m just a big believer in transparency — but after reading your speech I felt determined (with your permission:-) to work for you and with you and to contribute to what you’re creating at Google Health. I can share with you what I believe is the best (I’m not bashful to say so) privacy model possible for personal health information on the Web. I also have some radical new solutions for the current problem of data acquisition from the health system, and also for data entry issues. Finally, to create smart searches and clinical tools I believe you must have physicians creating medical knowledge base and here in Israel we have a thriving population of highly trained (many American-trained) and tech-savvy physicians (available at fractions of what it costs to pay U.S based MD’s); so if you’d ever consider setting up some of the Google Health R and D here along with your other Israeli Google division, I assure you it would be a productive venture.
Finally (sorry at the length of this email (but Nathan Mhyrvold apparently wrote long ones too:-), I have to say I was delighted to see in your corporate profile that you earned a Bachelor’s degree in History at Harvard. I was at Harvard recently training some pulmonologists in a new lung imaging technique (and it was very cool to see the hallowed offices of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)). Anyway, what struck me about your History degree was that Lewis Thomas, who wrote the “Notes of a Biology Watcher” column in the NEJM and who was the Dean of Yale Medical School and later the president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and a National Book Award winner to boot, wrote an essay called “How to Fix the Premedical Curriculum” in which he suggested that if there are to be MCAT tests to determine medical school entry, “the science part ought to be made the briefest, and weigh the least. A knowledge of literature and languages ought to be the major test, and the scariest. History should be tested, with rigor” (my emphasis). So, according to Lewis Thomas your History degree would have put you in good stead for a medical career, and here, in a way, you are in a medical career as the head of Google Health. So there.
Adam, I would dearly like to have the opportunity to meet you and hopefully to work with you.I would be delighted if we could facilitate a meeting. Please do not hesitate to contact me at any hour at your earliest convenience to 972-3-523-3487 or mobile 972-544-312686, or of course to this email.
Thanks you so kindly for your time and attention.
With best regards from Tel Aviv,
Shmuel Berger, B.A., B. Ed, MD

Good luck with your start-up!!

Best wishes for your new venture and good to see you back. I am one among the many people who heard your stories in sqlserver team in Redmond.

If there is something I can help, please let me know.

Thanks.
Prabsi

Glad to see you’re trying WordPress – we’re big fans and using it to power our own healthcare app – http://www.realityrn.com – to help keep new nurses in the profession.

I really liked your thoughts on standards of care in some of your other posts. I would and that the nursing shortage, as well as high nursing turnover and the problem with younger nurses leaving the profession all together is a huge cost and standard of care issue.

We’re all about new, practical and creative ways to solve that.