| Health care reform is the subject that will elicit | | | | not having it shoved down people's throats, |
| lofty as well as noble goals that will hopefully | | | | especially if they do not require such services. |
| reveal the secret to quality as well as affordable | | | | Many people are of the firm belief that |
| health care for all, which also means that the | | | | treatments are in effect the product, or service |
| stakes are pretty high. There is certainly general | | | | of health care. Medical care reform should mean |
| agreement that there is a need for medical | | | | getting good health as a product, which should be |
| system reform, and a solution needs to be found, | | | | cheaper than poor health. |
| though it does not necessarily mean rushing into | | | | If we go by past records, we will find that |
| and taking the wrong steps that will only help to | | | | medical care consumers do not shop for health |
| make the problem worse, and thus cause the | | | | care depending on the results they get; rather, it |
| public to pay higher prices. | | | | is perceived that all health care is more or less |
| Necessary To Address The Root Causes Of The | | | | the same, and that the costlier the health care, |
| Problems | | | | the better would be the health care provided. |
| Before thinking about health industry reforms, it is | | | | The need of the hour is for medical reform to |
| necessary to address the very root causes of | | | | not be the creation of self-created feeling of |
| the problems being faced. It is quite easy to point | | | | need, but rather it should be based on informed |
| fingers at what medical care providers provide in | | | | decisions and acted on when the time is right. |
| isolated instances, or what the government, | | | | There is little doubting the fact that each medical |
| employers as well as patients or other related | | | | care reform proposal will be backed by many |
| systems experience from health care services. It | | | | case studies and demonstrable facts, and when |
| would be a lot better if one takes a serious look | | | | such facts as well as proposals are filtered, it |
| at the structure and its related systems, which in | | | | should enable one to determine whether such |
| turn drive the behavior of health providers, and | | | | medical reforms will increase, or reduce the value |
| then improve on the quality of medical services, | | | | of health care that the patient receives, and thus |
| and thus reduce the cost to the public. | | | | should form the basis for accepting or rejecting |
| Medical care reforms, if properly implemented, | | | | such medical care reforms. |
| should help in providing inexpensive services, and | | | | |