With myriad plans, programs, rules and regulations, the health care system in the United States is not easily understood, making understanding how to reform it infinitely more complicated. It's like a bowl of spaghetti, you pull one piece of it, you may be pulling only one strand, but because it curves through the system touching so many other pieces, nothing stays still," said USC professor Glenn Melnick, a health economist.
WASHINGTON, May 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Following widespread media coverage of health care reform, political debates and legislative initiatives over the past year, consumers still profess to know very little about the health care system in the United States, according to the 3rd Annual Deloitte Center for Health Solutions Survey of Health Care Consumers. (www.deloitte.com/us/2010Consumerismsurvey) Less than a quarter (23 percent) of consumers surveyed say they understand how the health care system works, but 76 percent grade the system a "C" or below and nearly half (48 percent) believe that 50 percent or more of health care dollars are wasted.
On Aug. 30, Tauzin will discuss his ideas about how to change the health care system in the United States so it can be more efficient, effective and fair to all the participants, old and young, rich and poor.
Nothing says inequality like "separate but equal," in health care or in education. The dirty little secret is that we already have a two-tier health care system in the United States, a comprehensive one for those who can afford to pay, and an illusory system for those who can't. Many people do not yet fathom that they will not have access to comprehensive health care when they need it most -- if they lose their job, experience a costly medical problem with hollow insurance coverage or if they simply can't afford to buy insurance.
We must reform health care and health insurance in America to increase the length of life and improve the quality of life in America and to prevent the collapse of our economy that will surely happen if we fail to act. The clock is ticking. The current health care system in the United States for the uninsured is unworthy of this great nation. In the U.S., the world's richest country, many sick people who can't pay stay sick or die.
In 2005, Dr. Maryland's expertise in health care access issues led to her being selected by the Comptroller General of the United States - David Walker - (from among more than 530 applicants across the nation) to chair the Citizens' Health Care Working Group. The 15-member Working Group was authorized by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003 to develop recommendations for the President and Congress that would result in "Health Care that Works for All Americans." As chair, Dr. Maryland led the non-partisan group in engaging the public in a nationwide discussion of options to address the current crisis in health care and improve the health care system in the United States. The 15-member Working Group was authorized by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Imp...
Canadians are getting more for their money I am writing to offer a different view of the transfer of the baby, Ava Stinson, from Buffalo for care due to the lack of beds in Ontario. Several letters have appeared in this column drawing the conclusion that the type of health care system that Canada uses is therefore a failure, and that single-payer health care in the United States would be a disaster.
Whether or not you believe the much-cited study that the United States has worse health care than England, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, and 32 other countries, it is indisputable that the U.S. health care system is unlike any other in the world. The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not have universal health care.
THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM in the United States is sick and in need of a cure. This isn't news to those of us in the hospital industry or to patients either. Almost everyone knows someone who is without health insurance and struggling to pay for medical care, prescriptions or preventive screenings. Health care costs have skyrocketed over the past 20 years. Yet, there have also been measurable gains in improving patients' quality of life. ,
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