(Snippets from the frontline)
Healthcare: Running for office
Nowadays, America is in a continuous election cycle where candidates perpetually run for office.
Questions and answers are on a merry-go-round, with political figures becoming adept avoiding controversial committed remarks.
As most of you know, if elected, many of these officials will have a different healthcare plan than their constituents.
Here are some questions you should consider asking candidates that might enlighten their intent once they are in office:
- will you live under the same laws you enact for your constituents?
- when you turn 65, will you go on Medicare?
- should all children be guaranteed free healthcare?
- what kind of physical and mental health care should be provided to Veterans?
- should everyone have the same financial access to medications?
- how do you feel about seeing the doctor of your choice?
- would you want to be able to choose your admitting hospital?
- should the privileged health insurance of elected officials be subsidized by taxpayers?
Knowing responses to these questions might give you greater depth and insight whether their heart stands for the American people.
Gene Uzawa Dorio, M.D.
Exactly! These are great questions to ask. I’ve been telling people for a while now that we need to bring up the issue of our elected officials having special health care treatment rather than they experiencing what their constituents go through. And this especially applies to them after they serve their term! I bet this would have no trouble at all being approved by the American people.