Healthcare System Overhaul

I support Senator Obama for president because of his realistic and reasonable views of the important issues of today: the Iraq war, education, economy, human rights, and healthcare to name a few. My interest is in healthcare inasmuch as I have been involved in both primary care and in medical management for over four decades.

Sadly, I have seen the deterioration of health care in this country--the erosion of quality, the abuse of the reimbursement system, the decay of integrity throughout the provider community, and the escalating costs from medically unnecessary utilization of services

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My heart goes out to those individuals who are turned away because of their inability to pay. Sure, they can flock to emergency rooms where, unless they present with a life-threatening condition, they receive only cursory evaluations, become indebted from the unreasonable charges, and are sent away with no hope of receiving adequate follow-up care.

Our healthcare system needs drastic reforms, and it is possible if we deny reimbursement for medically unnecessary surgical procedures and medically unnecessary diagnostics (laboratory, x-ray, nuclear imaging, etc.) And deny reimbursement to providers who self-refer to facilities in which they have a financial interest.

The dollars expended for health care today are more than adequate to provide care for every single person in the United States if those dollars are allocated appropriately.

I am convinced that Senator Barack Obama will back and endorse strenuous measures to reform healthcare and maitain the premise that healthcare is a right.

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[Beth Barham]

I have to say, your granddaughter is a Republican but respects Obama's Healthcare Plan, too. We do need a change. However, I'm a Republican!