The last three posts here have been about the many ways our own healthcare system does not serve us. It serves the businessmen who run it and stockholders. It serves their political allies, but it does not serve the people. Anyone can see in an instant that medical care is as essential as electrical, water, and sewer services for individuals and communities. There can be no argument about that. Those other services are community owned or very tightly regulated to assure consistent availability at a reasonable price. Medical services are not community owned or tightly regulated and the pricing is extremely difficult to sort out. There is very little protection for medical consumers and predators take advantage of this situation. It is like the wild west.
Thank you again. I appreciate all of us coming together on the need for reform and to provide true safe, cost effective, reasonable and affordable healthcare. I have seen a concerning shift of selling and packaging up products that reap high profits without thought on how patients can afford it and how it is of benefit. Time for a new model of care. US used to have public hospitals all bought out and for profit. Health to all. There are things we can do to avoid the traps
In states where nurse practitioners can practice independently, community leaders could open an office, hire a nurse practitioner, and begin by providing better treatment for their own employees, police, fire fighters, and school employees with gradual expansion to include their larger population. We have all of the systems needed to support that nurse practitioner to perform at a very high level in treating chronic conditions. We just can't keep doing what we are doing
Thank you again. I appreciate all of us coming together on the need for reform and to provide true safe, cost effective, reasonable and affordable healthcare. I have seen a concerning shift of selling and packaging up products that reap high profits without thought on how patients can afford it and how it is of benefit. Time for a new model of care. US used to have public hospitals all bought out and for profit. Health to all. There are things we can do to avoid the traps
In states where nurse practitioners can practice independently, community leaders could open an office, hire a nurse practitioner, and begin by providing better treatment for their own employees, police, fire fighters, and school employees with gradual expansion to include their larger population. We have all of the systems needed to support that nurse practitioner to perform at a very high level in treating chronic conditions. We just can't keep doing what we are doing