I. The Message --- Fix United States Health Care.
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From... Fixing United States Health Care --- Citizen Letters
T Michael White MD
I. The Message --- Fix United States Health Care
“You were born to win, but to be a winner,
you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.”
Zig Ziglar
July 4th
Fine Citizens hello.
Thank you for allowing me to enter your space in these complicated health care times to decently, gently, kindly, yet forcibly, convey that we must partner to fix United States health care. The compelling reasons:
United States health care is an unplanned non-system;
Rudderless, United States health care has evolved into a certifiable, cataclysmic,
catastrophic, chaotic, unaffordable hot mess. If that sounds harsh, it just is not harsh
enough;
In general, there is no concern for the quality and safety of our care. If a patient is in the right place; at the right time; and before the right clinician (and that is a lot of ifs), a courageous, expert ‘Better Angel’ will almost always provide superb care. However, for many such care is now inaccessible and/or unaffordable;
That which is required (and missing) is a planned United States Health Care System
(USHCS) that will, by design, provide our fine citizens with universal access to affordable, basic/necessary, compassionate - safe, timely, efficient, effective, equitable/just, patient-centered care (ABC-STEEEP);
Without this planned system, our fine citizens are in a crisis in which uninsured (and
increasingly even ‘insured’) individuals face insurmountable health care charges that
place career, education, family, financial, food, housing and retirement securities in
jeopardy if/when significant illness or accident intervene;
To address this crisis, our fine citizenry must, at this never-too-late date, create, as tax-payer funded, single-payer infrastructure, a planned United States Health Care System (USHCS).
If/when naysayers observe (as they daily do), “nothing can be done,” our fine citizenry must insist that “there are solutions that the conscience, character and will of our fine, decent, virtuous citizenry can and will make happen.”
Once designed and implemented, our planned United States Health Care System
(USHCS) will provide our fine citizens universal access to affordable, basic/necessary,
compassionate - safe, timely, efficient, effective, equitable/just, patient-centered care (ABC-STEEEP) and our citizens, families, institutions (hospitals), communities and nation will be in a secure better place.
Respectfully submitted,
Dr. Mike
Please share your perceptions (your reality) about what I have right, wrong and/or omitted. I will be delighted to hear from you as your insights will significantly enhance my efforts. Importantly, if/when a message rings true, please forward it to those you deem may desire to know. TMWMD
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