Interminable Interview Meme

Part the last - part one (because I have too much to say on this one for a regulation sized post).

From SJ: 5. Based on recent experiences what would you change about your country's health care system and what would be your mission statement if you had the job of reforming it ? Note: I mean reforms other than recruiting only bunny nurses and making them wear school uniforms.

For starters, the high school / bunny uniforms would not be necessary as the all-Japanese nurse staff will look good in what I assume are typical Japanese nurse uniforms, as pictured below:

But first, my generic System Statement that applies to all systems, including health care:

There is no such thing as a perfect system. All systems involve people who are, by nature, flawed and imperfect. The fact that you have to design a system is proof that people have to be held accountable to a set of rules because they can’t be trusted to use reasonable judgment. All systems attract those who try to abuse them and twist them to their own greedy purposes. Therefore, it is important that any viable system be a) flexible enough to allow it to adapt to changing needs, b) policed by an outside source, and c) biased towards protecting the poor and needy rather than the wealthy and rich, who already have too many damned privileges as it is.

Anyone who thinks my ideas are less than perfect will be referred back to sentence #1 of the System Statement. And now, my Mission Statement for the Health Care System.

The goal of the Health Care System is to help people live longer and healthier lives – period. Any changes to the system will be evaluated in bottom-line terms – does this actually help someone live longer or better? People who contribute to the system will be rewarded. People found taking actions to benefit themselves instead of their patients will be ground into meatloaf and served from the hospital kitchens (it will be an improvement).