(Snippets from the frontline)
Healthcare
Millions of Americans do not have access to healthcare.
This is detrimental to the economy, society, and hinders our ability to progress as a nation.
The present healthcare system has upward spiraling premiums and drug prices, associated increases in foreclosures and bankruptcies, and frustration with “denied” care or “pre-existing conditions.”
Despite false assurance we are receiving unrivaled care from hospitals, insurance, and pharmaceutical companies, statistically the US rates poorly worldwide compared to other countries.
There are cries to “socialize” medicine, but this means government involvement notorious for the VA disarray. As well, expect special interest and lobbyists to maintain adverse monetary influence on legislators (they wrote the prescription drug plan Medicare Part D).
What should we do?
Pick and choose from countries around the world the most effective methods to provide healthcare and apply them to our nation. We are ingenious and creative, so putting this into “think tank mode” can eventually generate a custom-fit healthcare system for the American people.
We cannot remain ignorant of those profiteers who capitalize on illness and hinder our progress.
Access to healthcare for all will move the US forward.
Gene Uzawa Dorio, M.D.
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