Health Care Solutions: Who's driving this direction?

These agents understand that the value they must deliver is to develop and implement long term programs, programs that attack cost drivers, that reduce injuries and speed return to work.

Joe Paduda at Managed Care Matters wrote that. He wrote it as a compliment for agents he met at a recent conference on Worker's Comp.

It made me think: Who else? Where are they? Where the leaders in Health Care that understand ...they, we, must deliver a system of long term programs, programs that attack cost drivers, that reduce the sources of disease and chronic illness and speed return to work and family and community? 

Every Monday, for a few years, I scan my rss feeds from those who blog specifically about our health care system. I've intentionally looked for signs of change, of positive change, those who offer solutions.

I'd say finding a needle in a haystack has higher odds, right now.

I find a small percentage of articles of hope, of solutions, or of leaders without financial conflicts of interest. ( These relationships are becoming more entrenched, more...tolerated, more ignored, more widespread.) The majority, if not the totality, any solutions I find come from those operating outside of, in spite of or despite, the efforts of the existing health care industry's dominant players. 

It's ...very frustrating. Quite frankly, it seems worse now.

Maybe these are the darkest hours before the light of dawn. Truth always triumphs.