So looking at the current health reform issue what do think could be a potential solution? It is not an easy task attempting to find a solution that solves every aspect of the issue and can be applied to every very diverse case. You always hear the voices of the people in power or big fancy health professionals, but what do you think as an everyday American living with this struggle.
What is the President doing right now to help with this issue you ask; well there are many components to his current process. The first component is he is implementing provisions for those Americans who have lost their job. This component entails that administration will provide Americans who lose or lost their job a tax credit that allows them to keep their health insurance through COBRA. For those that do not know what COBRA is, it is the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. This is a continuation health program that allows certain people to continue their health insurance. (For more information on COBRA click here to visit The United States Department of Labor website.) This helps cover those who are now unemployed and without insurance.
The next component reenacts the Child Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This gives States incentives to help cover children. An estimated 4 million children on average would be covered. It will help those children and their families in risk of losing their coverage in this uneasy economy. The third component which will help save money by cutting down time is computerizing medical records. Paper systems take way more time and relying on the memory of a patient can be costly, time consuming, and somewhat unreliable. This is an important step in modernizing health care practices and reducing health care costs.
The fourth component is creating and distributing information on health and interventions. Basically medicine changes incredibly fast and its practically impossible for a single physician to keep up with all the new research. Without this information it’s difficult for a physician to diagnose and give the individualized treatment a patient is expecting and deserves. By solving this problem we can prevent wasting money, time, and services on wrong treatments. Last, but certainly not least, he wants to invest in prevention and wellness programs to save money in the future. This is very important because prevention helps prevent future health care costs due to behaviors that could have been prevented earlier.
These are all great steps in the solution to this health care reform, but one important question is where does the money for these processes come from? So my question for you is what is your opinion? How do you think we should approach this? Well stay tuned in for our next discussion on THE GREAT HEALTH REFORM DEBATE.
{My source for this post was HealthReform.gov which is a great resource for this topic. I encourage you to explore it to help further your knowledge}
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