For anyone that follows the trajectory of proposed health care changes in the United States, you’ve probably noticed that authors and speakers have a tendency to use a variety of verbs to convey the urgency of realizing it. Some of the verbs I’ve seen attached to health care include “transform, “disrupt,” and “reinvent.”
Now I understand – and agree with – many of the calls to bring about change in the U.S. health care system. But, I can’t help wondering if too much time is spent attempting to identify new verbs to explain it at the expense of digging in and making it happen.
Those of us with a strong interest in seeing change come to fruition have been afforded an amazing opportunity to undertake this noble challenge of addressing this fundamental issue: fixing health care over the next twenty years.
We did not arrive at this place overnight, nor will we solve the numerous challenges without thoughtful effort. But, if committed people are unwilling to step up and lead, then we will remain in this morass that is slowly drowning us all.
So, let us focus less on identifying verbs to explain the change and work toward bringing it about with all expediency.
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