Sometimes I feel this blog is full of compromise and qualifications. Health reform is good, but here are the problems. The mandate is necessary, but is it enough? Coordinating care is good but colluding is bad. And so on. Life is complicated, I guess and the U.S. health care system is about as complicated as it gets.
That’s why I love sports: a win is a win. And at the London Olympics, the U.S. women’s soccer team had a very, very big win: 2 to 1 over Japan, to take the gold medal.
It was a joyous moment and some of us will get to savor it a little bit longer when the team visits Rochester on September 1, for an exhibition match against Costa Rica. Why kick off the victory tour in Rochester? It’s the hometown of our own Abby Wambach, co-captain and star of the team.
I get to say “our own” because Abby is a hard-working ambassador for MVP’s Generation Go program. And I am proud of her, not just because she’s an incredible soccer player—the U.S.’s second highest all-time goal scorer—but also a matchless role model, committed to inspiring kids to lead an active life: to go outside; go out for the team; go for the gold. Through her soccer clinics, her internet video spots, her irrepressible energetic presence, Abby is a great counterbalance to the oh-so-tempting American diet of junk food and video games.
Wait a second—this is getting complicated. I just want to say. Good for you, Abby. Good for all of us.
Health Care Perspectives 