We Can Either Hang Together or We Can Hang Separately

Ladies & Gentlemen: The Crisis in Health Care Financing has reached Epidemic proportions in the U.S. If we do not do something soon to reform our health care financing system, we will destroy our economy and standard of living - that’s a fact, Jack.

It is not good enough anymore to say, ‘I feel sorry for the uninsured but I have my health insurance’. Or ‘isn’t it too bad that people go bankrupt because they cannot afford to pay their medical expenses but that is not me’. Or ‘isn’t it a shame that some chronically ill people have to choose between medications that prolong their life or financial insolvency’.

If we do not do something soon to slow down health care financing and delivery costs, those people that are uninsured, bankrupt and financially insolvent will be US.

I received a phone call last night from one of my Board members, Rob Wolf. Rob called me to tell me about a PBS Frontline story called “Sick Around The World - Can the U.S. Learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health care system?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/countries/models.html

Thepolicycenter.org would strongly suggest and recommend that you and your loved ones watch this very important documentary on how other industrialized countries finance their health care services. There are lessons for us to learn if you do not want to hang separately.

Get involved in the health care financing reform debate and its solutions. Health care financing and delivery cost escalation are the greatest threat to our economic stability, standard of living and quality of life since World War II and unfortunately time is running out.