The Vision

The vision that drives my work in amplifying health care reform efforts is one of seeing a convergence of several trends producing what has been called by some a 'retail health care marketplace.' This market, subject to dynamics more similar to retail markets than current health care is, would see the 'demand' side (consumers) more causal in what the 'supply' side (providers and plans) produces in the way of education, coverage products, and so on.

This vision has 'wellness' at its core, in that a fundamental change in our lifestyle here in American must reverse the current identity of an obese, sedentary, and increasingly ill society to be one more of being 'well,' in the sense of a self-conception, a sense of pride, a sense of identity.

Fundamentally, it is my view that the 'cosmology of risk' must be re-defined to create a measurable value of wellness, not just the degree of financial exposure through risk. Without doing so, it seems impossible to focus the system on what truly must be the goal if it is ever to be truly viable. Risk mitigation in a population that is seeminly unalterably committed to broadening its risk through unhealthy lifestyle behaviors and cultural choices seems a poor strategy.

It is this basic subscription to a different set of values that is required, in my opinion, for any sustainable and meaningful improvement in the 'health' of our health care system to take place.

Contact information

Stephen Bolles, DC
POB 44340
Eden Prairie MN 55346

 

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