Getting There from Here: How should Obama reform health care?

In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty. The Canadians had stories like the 1946 Toronto Globe and Mail report of a woman in labor who was refused help by three successive physicians, apparently because of her inability to pay. In Australia, a 1954 letter published in the Sydney Morning Herald sought help for a young woman who had lung disease. She couldn’t afford to refill her oxygen tank, ... Full Story »

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Patricia Blochowiak
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by Patricia Blochowiak - Jan. 31, 2009

Basically sound analysis of the problems and possibilities for fixing our system of health care coverage, though there is no mention of the system of health care delivery. When I found that a physician wrote the article, I was not surprised to find that the physician is a specialist. There is no mention whatsoever of the problem that many, many people in Massachusetts are still having in finding a primary care physician, since our system is overloaded with specialists and lacking primary care physicians.

A brief discussion of the concept of a medical home would have provided a major improvement. Check out www.aafp.org. Disclosure: My training is in family medicine.

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