Nice straightforward call to action.

Solutions that actually control spending growth, increase access and improve care will require multiple parties working across traditional battle lines to fix the system, not the blame.

Let's roll up our sleeves and get started.

Marc and Ken have done a great job of bringing balance to your very well written article and some very good points.

If marketing were all science and no art, one or two books/articles would be all anyone would need.

Anyway, thanks.

Great article. Very little I didn't know but nothing I didn't need to hear again!

Keep it up!

Thanks for starting another productive dialogue. People too often use the word leadership when they are talking about management and vice versa. H Chang's earlier reference to Martin Luther King and Gandhi was on track but perhaps limited. Most historically significant leaders inspired masses of people who then took action based on personal decissions within their realm of influence. Very few accomplished that by reaching just into their heads, more often they reached into their souls.
That is not to say that inspiration alone is enough- reference the results of the Franco-Prussian War where extreme organization and planning thoroughly destroyed a tradition of elan and inspirational leadership. But no plan or series of ideas survives first contact with reality and empowering (encouraging) individuals in a group to a think and act for themselves, either individually or as small groups, is the basis for long term success in organizations of free and educated people.