Health Care Professionals Speak Out on Reform
If you had a sinking ship, would you rather bail water until it sank, or would you first plug the leak? That's basically where we are in regard to our health care delivery system in the United States. The ranks of uninsured Americans is sky rocketing. Insurance premiums are taking more each month out of the budgets of those who are insured. Health care in the United States is rationed according to the health and the wealth of each individual, and the trajectory on which we find ourselves in regard to health care promises to take the United States out of the emergency room and into the morgue. Who is it that set these priorities for health care anyway? This is a question worth asking!
There is no doubt that delivery of health care in the U.S. as it is today is following an unsustainable model, yet there are many who fear change to health care delivery more than they are disturbed by the mire in which we now stand. It turns out that sometimes fear of an unknown is more frightening than the nightmare in which we find ourselves, and that's just what the powerful health insurance industry is banking on. Those corporate mega-giants want us to fear the glowing promise of change more than we fear our gloomy health care delivery system. They want us to believe that we will loose the quality of our care; that we will pay more; that essentially we will loose our freedom to be healthy. But CitizenNewscaster.com has discovered that what we stand to gain from health care delivery reform is completely the opposite of what we are told to fear. In fact we stand to reduce health related spending, become more efficient care providers, raise levels of health care service and extend health care to far more people than under the current system.
To come to these conclusions, CitizenNewscaster.com did its research by interviewing health care professionals in California's Central Coast including Kathleen King, CEO of the Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust; Leslie Conner, Policy Director for The Health Improvement Partnership; and Stephen Barkalow, Doctor and former candidate for state-wide office. Watch the video above to find out what health care reform means to these medical professionals and what reform, or the lack of it could mean to all Americans. |
