While on Twitter (http://twitter.com/campaign4health) today, I saw a tweet one from the New America Foundation about a great video on the basics of health care reform. It's a really simple look at the basics of health care reform. Two things that I really liked about about.
1) They mention exercise and healthy eating as one of three main ways to create costs savings (technology and payment for quality rounded out the pack). It also recognized that 70% of health care costs are preventable. It's so important that we are beginning to see greater acceptance of exercise and proper nutrition as part of broader health care reform.
2) The video is produced by Humana, an insurance company. The New America Foundation put it perfectly when they said: "The fact that the insurance company is putting PSAs on “what is health reform and why do we need it?” is just another sign of how far we’ve come from the Harry and Louise Days of 1993-94."
- Breanne McGahey
The Government doesn't own the USPS--it's been seperately controlled and operated for decades.
ReplyDeleteGovernment sponsored healthcare is ineffective--look at any number of post-communist states or nearly any other European state with government controlled health care.
Taking health care out of the private sector reduces competition and options for those who are being provided for. It effectively makes people pay for things they do not need. Under a current proposal for the health care reform is a qualification that every man woman and child need have coverage for OBGyn services even if they are a male or are not pregnant--how is that not wasteful and more efficient?
The point is that health care reform is needed, but what is not needed is government control of a health care system; what is not needed is for the government to 'require' health insurance. That's one step away from socialist thinking--and that's been demonstrated to be harmful time and time again.