The Main Stream Media has been bombarding America with coverage on the current "Health Care CRISIS" the President has made more than a few speeches declaring our need for government intervention concerning this our need to make health care available to all. Town Hall meetings and protests have brought out millions of Americans from across the country with passionate albeit emotional views over the type of action that should be taken, if any should be taken at all.
From my experience I have seen that the vast majority of practicing physicians are hesitant to make their political views made public. Perhaps this accounted for the fact that many doctors like many other Americans would are not interested in politics and would rather focus their limited time to their families, careers, faith, and hobbies. Maybe they feel its unethical to offer their political opinion in their position of power as a professional health care provider. For what ever the reasons doctors have for the most part stayed out of politics, until now.
By associating health care with the world "crisis" doctors who both agree and disagree with the president have been going public with their opinion as this type charged rhetoric brings out a sense of wrong doing and immediacy. The American Medical Association has for example has endorsed the House bill, only to pull the endorsement due to the fact that many in the AMA were outraged with the bill, while others felt that they should wait until the bill was published and they had time to read it.
It is safe to say that over the past few months you have had time to digest a lot of information concerning health care reform and have come to your own conclusions.
Please share those views with all of us. I am interested in knowing where you stand on a subject that won't only drastically affect your future career in medicine but also has the potential to change the way the entire health care process operates in America. Take a Second to leave your comments below.
2 comments:
I agree that something must be done, if not to ensure everyone in the country at least to control the rising costs of medicine. I don't think insurance companies are inherently evil or anything but I don't understand why health insurance can't be purchased across state lines or how they are exempt fro anti trust regulations. I strongly disagree with congress' bill which penalizes states for putting caps. I think penalizing Dr.s for how many tests they charge to the government makes a brash assumption that these tests are somehow ordered for business purposes instead of for the patients own good. from the physicians I've talked to believe that this will only limit care to the people who need medical care the most. The logic is that as a doctor you will be safer turning away non compliant or high risk patients. I also think there is something to be said in the fact that congress (the makers of the bill) are the only group of people who exempt from buying into the universal health care plan. I think its great that the public is concerned about the soaring prices of health care and the problems many Americans have procuring insurance as well as the abuse of medicaid and Emergency rooms. addressing these problems has encouraged us to think of solutions; I just don't agree with making health care a partisan political opportunity. I think the government is prematurely trying to take control before exploring other more appropriately measured options.
I agree with you that the government should give a more measured response to the problem. I don't see the need to rush things through so fast, I think this process should get more involvement from the public and health care professionals so everyone knows what they will be getting into and that it will be likely to work. I think Americans should put more money into education than what we donate to politicians. I think it would also be wise that insurance companies make some moves of good will to putting some of their premium money towards educating children and adults about proper exercise nutrition and other healthy lifestyle choices. If they put a decent amount of effort into this program they could possibly even save themselves money by making their clients more healthy and in affect decreasing recouperation times, and preventable diseases.
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