Why Health Reform Will Be a Danger to Passive Patients

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"Similarly, a "medical home" model puts primary-care doctors, or perhaps nurse practitioners, in charge of patients, paying them a separate fee to be the overseer of your health and your chart and to help you access specialists in a coordinated way."
Nurse practitioners do not have an equivalent training to physicians. I would think that you, as an MD, would recognize this fact. How will the public be kept informed of who to go to for healthcare if even doctors are publishing erroneous information?
TELL THE TRUTH!
Nurse practitioners are NOT equivalent to physicians!!

hurdlepup of WV 10:50AM May 13, 2010

You are soooo correct.This was one of my highest concerns for the health reform. My family uses CAM. My primary doc is an ND and I have to pay out of pocket. We have a useless insurance plan through my husbands employer for emergencies. I recently took my daughter to the ER for and injury. We pay close to 400 per month. The plan paid $3.00 we have to pay the rest. We would be in much better shape if we could take that 400 per month and put it where we want, on prevention.

Donna of CO 11:25AM April 21, 2010

Liberty Goodwin, you are right on! Thank you for posting.

Shannon of FL 11:07PM March 22, 2010

You make some worthwhile comments in your issue focused on "Health Reform", but there are two rather large elephants in the room which nobody is talking about.
1. We don't pay serious attention to the tens of thousands of toxic chemicals in our commonly used products - and in our bodies, per a recent CDC study and others. These
chemicals are connected to many common and serious health conditions, especially the expensive and growing chronic ones, such as asthma, autism, endocrine disruption, cancer.
2. Other countries get far better health results by using, as the World Health Organization (WHO) points out, multiple health care modalities (otherwise known as CAM - Complementary & Alternative Medicine). England, which spends ~$2,000 per capita vs. our $7,000 plus, has 5 homeopathic hospitals under its National Health. Germany's Commission E in the 1980s studied many traditional and herbal remedies and approved those found safe and effective for prescribing under their national health.
Why don't we address these two major potential actions for better - and cheaper - health in the U.S.? Simple - how many billions of dollars are being made by marketing the products that include unhealthy chems - and by restricting our health expenditures to pharmaceutical drugs and high-tech medical practices?
I predict that this will eventually change, only because the current course we're on is totally going over a cliff, with both its poor health results and its drive toward bankruptcy for all.

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faravicke of AL 10:38PM November 22, 2009

Why are people so afraid of of healthcare for this nation.....my nephew in canada has run a bill of over $300000000 due to CMT and LUPUS inherited from his familly...he owes NOTHING , the canadian heakth plan pays it nall....his DRS are the best in the world, and yes, some are from the USA.....the ones who are fighting this are the greedy republicans........if any of them came down with a serious desease and wiped out all their money, where would they be without a pot to p in...leaving a debt for their children, that's a lot of bulls....the ar we are in is leaving a lot more, not counting dead men and women, x military who are not getting what is due them because of all the crooks and scammers

gerrymo of TX 12:33PM November 22, 2009