Obama: Health Care Reform This Year — Or Never
President Barack Obama warned on Thursday that if health care reform didn’t take place this year, it won’t be completed during his presidency.
“We need health care reform legislation that works, that preserves what works about health care, that fixes the things that are broken. And I think the status quo is unacceptable ” said the president, on a conference call with volunteers for his leftover campaign arm, Organizing for America. “And we have to get it done this year. If we don’t get it done this year we are not going to get it done.”
Underscoring the high stakes of the debate, Obama called on his supporters to make the same organizational effort on behalf of health care that they did during the election. There were, he said, few more important issues facing his administration.
Obama: Health Care Reform This Year — Or Never.
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Obama Health Care Reform Gains Support | Barack Obama News & Community, United States President & Government Directory said this on May 28, 2009 at 9:36 pm
I have yet to see or hear any proposed legislation that would help keep more victims from becoming disabled unnecessarily by U.S. Health Care.
I’m talking about that person who isn’t outwardly bleeding who is made to wait 17 hours in agony in the ER only to be sent home and return two days later with a ruptured appendix.
I’m talking about the person enduring multiple hospitalizations to no avail until a surgeon overheard physicians discussing the hospitalized patient’s x-rays and upon viewing the radiographs, informed them that the patient needed a gallbladder operation.
I’m talking about that female colleague who had to have her uniformed and armed policeman husband accompany her to a repeat doctor’s visit in order to get the medicine she needed for her epilepsy and migraine headaches.
These are no longer anomalies. They have become commonplace, accepted occurrences in our society. And I’ve seen nothing in any proposed health care reform legislation that will change such accepted behavior that embodies the essence of wasteful spending.
We, as an enterprising nation with capitalistic ideals, have come to view “follow the money” as an acceptable mantra to justify nearly every health care foible.
Throwing money at the problem won’t fix anything without addressing how doctors practice medicine and how doctors are paid.
If you read Holding Health Care Accountable by E. Haavi Morreim, you’ll find that it is a well known and documented fact that the average insured U.S. citizen has less than a 50/50 chance of receiving an accurate diagnosis and proper treatment under our present health care system.
Would you risk your life savings deliberately in Las Vegas with those odds? I think not — at least most of us probably wouldn’t. Yet, without realizing it, based on the status quo, we’re doing so daily not only with our wealth, but also with our lives.
I should know. I became disabled unnecessarily only because doctors didn’t have time to read and analyze my test results — either that, or they were simply incompetent or didn’t give a hoot. For more on my story http://doctorblue.wordpress.com