Aequanimitas

America’s Public Healthcare should be administered by the Institute of Medicine [ http://www.iom.edu ] and The National Institutes of Health [ http://www.nih.gov ] with delivery coordinated via existing collaborating academic medical centers of excellence and affiliated clinics: 1) Johns Hopkins Medicine http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org 2) Washington University School of Medicine http://hap.wustl.edu/pages/?page=overview 3) Mayo Clinic http://www.mayoclinic.com/ 4) Geisinger http://www.geisinger.org/about/healthier/index.html 5) Stanford University Medical Center http://stanfordhospital.org/ 6) Emory University Hospital http://www.emoryhealthcare.org 7) Oregon Health and Science http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/ 8) University of Alabama Medicine http://www.uabmedicine.org/ 9) University of Pennsylvania Medicine http://www.pennmedicine.org/ 10) Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center http://www.dhmc.org/ 11) NYU Langone Medical Center http://www.med.nyu.edu/ 12) Intermountain Medical Center http://intermountainhealthcare.org/Pages/home.aspx

13)UVA Health System  http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/toplevel/home/home.cfm

14) Duke Medicine http://www.dukehealth.org/ + many others

This system will not be “government run”. Call it The NIH-IOM option. It will be headed by a Chief of Medicine or Chief Medical Officer of the United States, someone like Geisinger’s Glenn Steele Jr., MD,PHD or Brent C.James, from Intermountain Medical