Public Health Reflux ... er ... Redux

We’d thought we’d learned from a prior guest to this august podcast that Big Pharma could provide cures for more diseases, if only flaws in America’s third-party payor health care system could be fixed. Today’s guest is not so sure of that. Dr. Seth Powsner, a professor at Yale and a practicing ER physician, says that it’s really a question of will: the collective will of a nation to solve a problem. That’s especially true when it comes to curing diabetes. Sure, a cure might be around the corner, but more likely, it’ll take the will the people and the government to solve the obesity crisis. And, by the time we belly up to that bar, it might be as well to simply start eating better. That may prove a better cure than even Big Pharma can provide, with or without an adequate reimbursement mechanism.