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Dark Secret About Healthcare Reform

There is a dark secret about healthcare in
this country: The quality of our system isThen there are the doctors who become red
poor and millions of Americans can't affordflags. Some dance with the dark secret of
health  insurance.unlimited wealth, rather than embracing their
oath to do no harm to others in desperate
Poor Americans receive Medicaid, but too manyneed  of  treatment.
experience inferior medical care. Also, lots
of health care providers and doctors don'tOur government is a red flag because for too
want to accept Medicaid payments, whichlong it has submitted to the will of medical
attempts  to place limits on medical charges.lobbyists, insurance corporations, and
pharmaceutical  companies.
Retired Americans depend upon Medicare to
meet medical needs, but there are seriousWhy can't government be more sensitive to the
gaps and limitations in the coverage. Retiredneeds of a majority of Americans buckling
citizens who are middle class can not affordunder  the  strain of our health care crisis?
to pay for long term care services available
in nursing care homes or residential careFace  Feelings:
facilities.
Possibly, the healthcare industry and our own
Many of our hospitals are managed poorly,federal government are simply too fearful to
have unacceptable mortality and infectiontry  new  approaches  to  reform  and change.
rates, and are depressing places to die in.
The quality of our health care in this nationI assume they don't want to lose money,
seems to be totally dependent on one'spower, or influence. It makes me angry to
ability  to  pay.sense they refuse to face their own dark
secrets.
But doctor visits, prescription costs, and
high tech surgical care are placing hugeThey claim a national health care system
financial  stressors  on  everybody.would decrease the quality of health care by
taking away the profit motive. Of course,
The rich are well cared for, the middle classthey avoid facing the fact that the profit
experiences inconsistent care, and the poormotive is precisely the cause of our health
have mostly inadequate care-based upon whatcare  crisis.
they  get  in  our  emergency  rooms.
It is sad to think that CEO's of these
Unfortunately, too many doctors and hospitalscorporations are making six figure incomes
have become so busy that human emotions,off the suffering of more than 47 million
compassion, and sensitivity have become lostAmericans who don't have any health care
in  the  shuffle.coverage.  How do you really feel about that?
Too often, pills, computers, and specializedAnd why do our political and business leaders
machines have become substitutes for theseem so reluctant to look at the pros and
health care professional's time and attitudecons of national health systems in Canada,
of tender loving care. It is time that we dothe Netherlands, England, Germany and other
something positive to reform are whole healthEuropean  nations?
care  system.
Can we forgive ourselves for thinking,
Now that we have been honest and open aboutbelieving, and pretending that our health
the problem, let's go to the next steps oncare system based on profit is better than
The Emotional Recovery Card. (EMC is mytheirs?
unique life coaching approach to personal and
social  change.)Admit  Powerlessness:
Stop  and  Think:We do have a sense of being powerless to
change the system. We remain at the mercy of
Let's stop approaching health care from thethe insurance companies who cancel our
point of view of one's ability to pay or ascoverage because we have AIDS, Cancer, or
some simple commodity at the whims of oursome other expensive and catastrophic
market economy. Health care should become aillness.
basic human right. So, let's stop and think
more  about  that.We can't seem to budge certain hospitals that
have turned medical care into assembly lines
Face  Triggers:for beds, and patient charts, rather than a
haven  for  love,  compassion,  and  healing.
We need to face our red flags, and see the
private health insurance industry for what itMany of us are powerless to change the
really is: a business that seeks to make amedical profession and pharmaceutical
profit from healthy people who don't need itindustry, which say the market economy must
very  often.determine the price for all health care
costs.
These corporations just keep striving to
reduce coverage for "pre-conditions", andAt times, we can become hopeless or apathetic
they lobby against legislation to extendabout professional politicians who are
national coverage to the sick, poor, anddependent on political contributions from the
elderly.health care industry to get the money they
need  to  stay  in  office.
Some hospitals are red flags, because they
are corporations who profit from becomingI will complete our discussion of healthcare
more specialized, bureaucratized, mechanized,reform in my next article: Challenging the
and  computerized.Dark Secret About Healthcare.



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