Reforming Our Current "Sick Care Management System" to be More like the Health Care Systems Elsewhere on the Planet?
YES, I believe that we will have a reformed so-called "Health Care System" passed by both Houses of Congress and signed by our energetic, intelligent, likable and very well-spoken President. I personally couldn't be more pleased with his leadership on so many fronts. Can any of us Thinking Active Rain Loyals be truly pleased with our current system that spends 1.5 times more money per patient than does the next highest Country on their patients? And, our system is ranked something like 37th on the Planet for results in health care! This is not right and should be fixed pronto. At the current rate of expenditure, our Government will be spending about 20% of its budget (and Deficit, ugh) on what is called Health Care, by the year 2020! Let's see what we can come up with here over the next couple of weeks and ship our ideas off to our President. HELP ME!
Leadership in Washington D.C. on Many Fronts!
I served, during a long sabbatical leave from my Michigan State University Professorship, in the Executive Branch for 1.5 years, at the end of Carter and the start of Reagan and found that oh so many Cabinet employees (I hate to call them Bureaucrats, but they are, in reality) almost sat around waiting for word "On-High" as to what to work on. Well, it appears that they have been quite busy since soon after Barack Obama came to town! It seems like something new comes out almost everyday. Our President is drawing criticism for working on too many major issues at once. I say HURRAH, for it is refreshing to see signs that the approximately 8000 Executive Branch 'Bureaucrats' are being given direction and that they are producing!
Why is it so Difficult to Get Away From "Sick Care Management" and on to True Health Care?
Back to the subject (you have just witnessed that age-old professorial drift, off subject!) of Sick Care Management or Health Care. We certainly do not have much more than the former , but we surely want the latter, Right? You and I would have plenty to say were we put on a panel to draft a Program that would be sustainable, enable maintenance of true Health and involve our entire population, wouldn't we? Mark my words: We will not hear most of the obvious solutions that we would probably list coming out of Congress. There are too many Sacred Cows, as they say! And, all 435 members of the House of Representatives and 33 members of the Senate are up for re-election in less than 14 months!
Here is your Assignment to Get Started:
Sit on one of the benches inside your closest Wal-Mart Superstore, or a similar department store with high traffic, and watch the customers go by for 30 minutes. Then, sit down and turn your major conclusions into a fundamental solution or 2 that would be necessary to have a true Health Care System in the United States of America. You are urged to add ONE COMMENT to this Post so that we Active Rainers can develop an intelligent, no-holds-barred, no sacred-cows solution to fixing our non-system! The most important problem facing the health of this Country is OBVIOUS! There are many others that we will uncover. I look forward to hearing from you after you sit at that Super Store for your 30 minutes, thinking all the while about health problems as they pass you bye and what we should do to correct them in the future. We just might be "Smarter Than a Congress" since we do not run for re-election!
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