HEALTH CARE AN EVER ESCALATING CRISIS
Health care is in an escalating crisis of historic proportions with the costs of healthcare distribution and insurance skyrocketing to over 1.6 trillion dollars, with no end in sight.
The medical malpractice crisis, although not insignificant, pales in the face of over 45 million uninsured Americans, many who are gainfully employed, and employers unable to meet the healthcare cost demands of their employees.
The time to stop issuing blame is over, and palliative measures must be recognized as only putting a band-aid over a bleeding aorta.
It is a time for real, long-term, solutions and difficult decisions: Centralized specialty care; patient assisted medical care payments; economy of scale treatments; greater attention to end of healthcare decisions; recognition of the human errors associated with medical care with a transition from litigation to remediation; improving communication openness and patient safety.
It is a time that healthcare providers and patients take responsibility for their tasks and situations, and remember that it is disease, not ourselves who we are fighting as a team. Attribution
The medical malpractice crisis, although not insignificant, pales in the face of over 45 million uninsured Americans, many who are gainfully employed, and employers unable to meet the healthcare cost demands of their employees.
The time to stop issuing blame is over, and palliative measures must be recognized as only putting a band-aid over a bleeding aorta.
It is a time for real, long-term, solutions and difficult decisions: Centralized specialty care; patient assisted medical care payments; economy of scale treatments; greater attention to end of healthcare decisions; recognition of the human errors associated with medical care with a transition from litigation to remediation; improving communication openness and patient safety.
It is a time that healthcare providers and patients take responsibility for their tasks and situations, and remember that it is disease, not ourselves who we are fighting as a team. Attribution
posted by don regan at 7:50 PM
2 Comments:
Doc,
Great topic...but a two questions:
What are the numbers in SLO county for medical malpractice suits? Somebody has the info for you as close as a phone call.
How many people in SLO county are estimated to have no health insurance? Likewise, someone in the County government offices has that number for you also.
If we keep some focus on the "local," we'll be more informative to our readers.
Health care sure is an escalating issue and something must be done to improve the situation.
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