Obama’s health care plans.
I attended one of the several thousand commnty gatherings to discuss the infrastriucture of a new approach to health care last week, conducted by Obama supoprters.. It was one of the larger ones with at least 100 peopel attending. Several things became very clear, The public as a group feel they have been ripped off by the private insurance industry and thinks it needs replacing. They are dissatisfied with the excess of specialists and want access to primary care physicians, and better reimbursement for these physicians to practice preventive medicine. There is a general feeling that there is too much technology used, and that mental health and dental care have been neglected. There was a general agreement that health care was a right. There was agreement that we should be able to provide access to care for the everyone in the country without increasing the cost of health services. Having a single insurer would reduce costs, as would better access to primary care. The medical schools will have to change from an emphasis on specialty care to primary care and reimbursement will have to favor primary care over specialty care. There was a belief that the insurers, hospitals and drug companies would be the biggest hurdles to overcome, unless it was made clear that the pubilc was unwilling to grant them further special status, Reading reports of other similar meetings the same points are being made at all meetings.
