{"id":361,"date":"2009-04-15T14:09:04","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T21:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2009-04-15T14:12:14","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T21:12:14","slug":"healthcare-x-prize-releases-initial-design-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/15\/healthcare-x-prize-releases-initial-design-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare X PRIZE Releases Initial Design Guidelines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Personally I'm a little skeptical about a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xprize.org\/media-center\/features\/healthcare-x-prize-releases-initial-design-guidelines\">Healthcare X Prize<\/a> that is sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wellpoint.com\/business\/about_family.asp\">Wellpoint<\/a>, (does it not follow that a giant for-profit healthcare provider would primarily be motivated to discover ways to become more profitable?) but after watching the Peter Diamandis \"Why design a Healthcare X PRIZE?\" video I'm at least convinced that the experiment could provide some very valuable information.<br \/>\nThe idea is to pick five teams that will compete in providing healthcare to test groups of 10,000 people each over a period of three years. The 'winner' will have garnered the best quality-of-life score from their group.  Let's hope at least that there will be a Single-Payer team in the competition. Certainly the Healthcare X Prize provides an arena in which advocates of Single-Payer can show their stuff.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RPJjj9Of6Ys\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/RPJjj9Of6Ys\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Personally I'm a little skeptical about a Healthcare X Prize that is sponsored by Wellpoint, (does it not follow that a giant for-profit healthcare provider would primarily be motivated to discover ways to become more profitable?) but after watching the Peter Diamandis \"Why design a Healthcare X PRIZE?\" video I'm at least convinced that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/15\/healthcare-x-prize-releases-initial-design-guidelines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> \"Healthcare X PRIZE Releases Initial Design Guidelines\"<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[273,48,271,270,274,272],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john","tag-diamandis","tag-health","tag-sicko","tag-single-payer-national-health-insurance","tag-wellpoint","tag-x-prize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.useriscontent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}