Comments on: Why Hillarycare failed…and what we need to learn from that failure https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2018/08/14/why-hillarycare-failedand-what-we-need-to-learn-from-that-failure/ Everything you always wanted to know about the Health Care system. But were afraid to ask. Tue, 14 Apr 2020 01:29:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.4 By: pjnelson https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2018/08/14/why-hillarycare-failedand-what-we-need-to-learn-from-that-failure/#comment-864256 Wed, 15 Aug 2018 15:14:49 +0000 http://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=94644#comment-864256 On May 7, 1959, Baron C.P. Snow gave a lecture at the Senate House located on the University of Cambridge campus in Cambridge, England. The opening quotation on yesterday’s post is from that lecture.

]]> By: pjnelson https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2018/08/14/why-hillarycare-failedand-what-we-need-to-learn-from-that-failure/#comment-864255 Tue, 14 Aug 2018 15:49:15 +0000 http://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=94644#comment-864255 “I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.” Taken alone, this quotation might be viewed as referring to the geopolitical divisions within our nation’s social and civic discourse. However, it was spoken by a physician in England, nearly 60 years ago. Widely recognizable by a few, no doubt, I will post his name tomorrow, if not identified by another Blog visitor.
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As an aside, he was describing his view that a communication gap was evolving between the knowledge realms of the sciences and the humanities. Could it be that the communication gap between these two intellectual realms represents the essential root cause, of root causes, for the problems plaguing our nation’s healthcare industry? And, could it be that the communication gap between the two realms of knowledge also contributes substantially to the level of uncertainty as our nation adapts to a rapidly evolving new world order? To consider the dimensions of this communication gap, the concept of cognitive dissonance may apply as defined nearly 62 years ago by Leon Festinger.

Please assume that the HUMANITARIAN mandate for each person’s Basic Healthcare Needs and the SCIENTIFIC mandate for each person’s Complex Healthcare Needs represents the essential intellectual realms for healthcare. This duality has attributes that parallel the thoughts of the author quoted above. Could it be that a communication gap has also occurred within our nation’s social discourse regarding the humanitarian and scientific mandates for healthcare? Could it be that a paradigm shift has occurred and the associated communication gaps block any true reform from originating from within the healthcare industry itself OR our nation’s civic discourse?
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During the ?13 year interval since its first publication, your post is a reminder that not much has changed. Unless revealed by someone else, more about the author of the opening quotation above, tomorrow.

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