Paradigm Shifting - as applied to healthcare in America

[Duer 157099]

I'm reading a book called The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations (it's one of many I've been reading lately on the theme of "crowdsourcing" and "crowdfunding" and whatever other neologisms are used to describe this phenomenon) and the impact this is having on, for example, the music industry (Napster et al), the encyclopedia industry (really? there is/was one?) (Wikipedia et al), print journalism (DU), etc etc -- you know all of the examples, we're living through it right now.

And it occurs to me that we're on the brink of a revolution in how health care is managed in this country. I don't know what form it will take, but all I know for certain is that it will change, and sooner rather than later. What we're witnessing is the death-grip of the insurance industry, the struggle to survive when one knows they are very terminal, but I'm convinced that it cannot nor will not last much longer.

As I've said, I don't know what it will look like, but life has a way of recapitulating other patterns that have worked, so I'd be looking towards the concept of "crowdsourcing" (for lack of a better term to describe what I mean, because that particular term sure doesn't sound apropos to medicine, lol--or maybe it does) to revolutionize healthcare.

So thinking along those lines, do you have any visions of what this might realistically look like?

[Duer 157099]

1. I'm kicking this because I watched "House" last night

and damned if it wasn't exactly about this very theme!!!

Anybody else see it?

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. We are seeing a paradigm shift not only in health care

also in the political arena...

But you are correct, and I have to ask... is this country too large for the current nominal system?