Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Healthcare reforms

http://www.healhealthcarenow.org/
This first website supports the healthcare reforms. It is made by healhealthcarenow.org which supports 450,000 doctors. The message from the video is that the reforms will focus much more on preventative medicine – keeping Americans healthy instead of waiting until they are sick and then trying to make them better. The doctors who speak are clear that this is an important issue, along with ensuring that it is easier to get health insurance for everybody.
http://www.cprights.org/
The second website is Conservatives for Patients Rights. The man behind this is Rick Scott, a former hospital CEO who lost his job following a major scandal involving fraud against Medicare and Medicaid. This website has interviews with English and Canadian patients who don’t like their government run health systems. It is hardly surprising to find this view from an organisation so deeply involved with the current healthcare system. These are the people who have the most to lose from the healthcare reforms.
It is difficult to be impartial in this issue - the NHS isnt perfect! Despite that, the first website with its sensible, logical arguments was more convincing. It is clear that preventative treatment would go a long way to improving the general health of Americans and the reforms may remove some of the stranglehold of the insurance companies.

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