Science of sleep: Health Care Summit is television's version of anesthesiaMar 05 2010, New York — Since everyone else seems to have a suggestion on how to cut health care costs, here's mine: Pipe full-length DVDs of Thursday's Health Care Summit into every operating room in America and we will eliminate the need for any other form of anesthesia.
That should save a bundle.
You really wanted this seven-hour drama to become engaging, since it dealt with reasonably important matters like life, death and a few trillion of our dollars.
Trouble is, a TV show can't grab you if it can't keep you awake and the human body can take only so many exposures to phrases like "We use a high-risk pool until we get to the exchange" or "We aren't incentivizing prevention" before it falls asleep.
Now no one went into Thursday's Health Summit expecting "Jersey Shore South," with Nancy Pelosi as Snooki.
But after a year of posturing, speeches, sound bites and jargon from some other galaxy, I had this crazy hope that maybe the major players could sit down and agree in simple sentences what we should or shouldn't do next.
That should save a bundle.
You really wanted this seven-hour drama to become engaging, since it dealt with reasonably important matters like life, death and a few trillion of our dollars.
Trouble is, a TV show can't grab you if it can't keep you awake and the human body can take only so many exposures to phrases like "We use a high-risk pool until we get to the exchange" or "We aren't incentivizing prevention" before it falls asleep.
Now no one went into Thursday's Health Summit expecting "Jersey Shore South," with Nancy Pelosi as Snooki.
But after a year of posturing, speeches, sound bites and jargon from some other galaxy, I had this crazy hope that maybe the major players could sit down and agree in simple sentences what we should or shouldn't do next.
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