Dangerous ideas most happened in the department of health,
when I talk about dangerous ideas in healthcare, I am not talking about
tinkering with funding models or introducing a new performance indicator. A
dangerous idea is one that turns status quo thinking on its head. Consider, for
example, a gear-shift in cultural norms such that the privacy of health records
is irrelevant to the vast majority of citizens; or that the political
inevitability of mass immigration (say, quintupling the annual number of
immigrants) eliminates the human resource challenge in healthcare and solves
the spiraling costs of caregiver burden in this country. (For the record, I
disagree with the first dangerous idea; I believe in the second).
This is not to say imaginative ideas don't exist in
healthcare; rather, it is to say I am concerned that they do not cycle their
way up to executive team
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