Friday, August 15, 2008

Most Americans Are For Health Care Reform

A recent survey done by The Commonwealth Fund has shown that 82% of Americans are fed up with the current state of the health care system in this country and want it to change:
Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, thinks Americans are being ill served, given the amount of money spent on health care in the United States.

"We now spend twice per capita what other developed nations spend on care, yet we die younger, have worse access to care, and are even behind on medical computerization," Woolhandler said. "These survey results are a clarion call for the health financing mechanism used elsewhere -- nonprofit national health insurance."

Kathleen D. Stoll, director of Health Policy at Families USA, thinks the survey reinforces what is already known about Americans' frustration with the current health care system.

"We have seen the number of uninsured rise. We have seen people facing higher out-of-pocket costs. We see layers of complications in terms of billing problems," she said. "All that adds up to an American public that is quite ready for health care reform."

If you are like me and the vast majority of Americans, and want to have an effective change to the way the current death care system to a viable, improved health care system, there are two things you can do.

One is vote for Obama in November. The other is to click here, and fill out the form.

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