Community Health Systems
Shouldn’t existing health care systems be improved instead of starting a whole new bureaucracy?
Instead of starting a whole new government bureaucracy, here are some ideas: put limits on malpractice and other lawsuits of hospitals and doctors. Improve and expand health department clinics. Go back to the idea of community hospitals: small, no frills, no cable tv, coffee bars, fancy waiting rooms, or parking lot guards. Patients can get basic treatment, not plastic surgery or other luxury surgeries. They can help repay (upon recovery) by offering their labor: cleaning, painting, repairs, kitchen service, etc. In this way, the people will be more appreciative of the free service and realize that nothing is free. These hospitals can be placed in vacant stores, malls and other vacant buildings. The local community can get together and fix them up. Limit emergency treatment to injuries and serious situations, not hangovers, headaches, or hangnails.
84 bureaucracies, not 1. Do the people supporting this realize their records will no longer be private between a dr and patient but instead be coalated into a data base and when you need care the records will then be accessed by members of the 84 bureaucracies to “decide” if you get health care and what determines that is your age, your ethnic background, you socioeconomic status and what party you belong to. I would rather have no health insurance then a govt provided one.
WVNA/PASNAP Nurses Tell Community Health Systems to put Patients Before Profits