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After 10 years with Memorial Hermann Healthcare systems I have chosen to leave and join HyGreen Inc. This is a new technology company designed to help hospitals and other healthcare providers increase hand washing compliance and reduce hospital acquired infections. My role is Central Area Sales Manager with responsibility for sales throughout TX, LA, AR, OK, and NM. I have worked with several of the people involved with HyGreen in past companies and look forward to growing the company and making a difference in the area of infection control. www.gohygreen.com

1. Americans are satisfied with their current health care. Compared to what? Most Americans have no choice but what their employers can afford to offer. 2. American business should love health care reform. It frees them from being the administrator of health care benefits and allows them to focus on what they produce. In a global economy this should be seen as a good thing. 3. Medicare needs to become more like a managed care company than a benefit for old people. MCOs started as a wellness concept and a public health option can push this more. American business has little incentive to provide wellness because the employee may leave and they lose the benefit of a healthy work force. 4. Health care insurance being tied to employment is a fluke of government wage price controls during WWII. This system is not one of the 10 commandments. 5. Those opposed to Health care reform say this will lead to health care rationing. WE ALREADY DO RATION HEALTH CARE BASED ON PRICE. 6. The Republicans ...

Pretty amazing, but not surprising considering the life he has been living. C'mon you have to pay your taxes. The bigger question is the fate of healthcare reform in the US. If you have read his book you have a sense of where he was going and Barney Frank continues to ask if we should be severing the link between healthcare coverage and employment.