Organizing for America | Grassroots for Change: It's done!

It's done!

By Eva from Yarmouth Port, MA - Jan 1st, 2009 at 6:28 pm EST

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Please read an excerpt from the Grassroots for Change position paper. Click here to full document, submitted to HHS and Change.gov today. Read it online at hhs.grassrootsforchange.org
Healthcare delivery and health insurance are separate and independent service offerings and are best not bundled, when discussing issues of reform, accountability and change. While the science of health care delivery is best left to professionals, the average consumer - ie an ordinary person should be able to understand simple, equitable , accountable and transparent choices both in consumption of health care services and in the purchase and use of health insurance plans. Any reform is best measured by grassroots oversight and channels of review driven by market forces and an ordinary person's common sense. Lack of such "user friendliness" either in the consumption of health care services or in the purchase of health insurance, has led to isolation of the "consumer". This isolation is causative in the total lack of confidence on part of the consumer, in the "system".
The same ordinary person who is capable of navigating a complex i-phone cannot begin to protect him/her self without being swindled by or otherwise deluged with "the insurance" gorilla or the occassional "provider" mafioso old boy network, especially, in small town America.

Please read an excerpt from the Grassroots for Change position paper. Click here to full document, submitted to HHS and Change.gov today. Read it online at hhs.grassrootsforchange.org
Healthcare delivery and health insurance are separate and independent service offerings and are best not bundled, when discussing issues of reform, accountability and change. While the science of health care delivery is best left to professionals, the average consumer - ie an ordinary person should be able to understand simple, equitable , accountable and transparent choices both in consumption of health care services and in the purchase and use of health insurance plans. Any reform is best measured by grassroots oversight and channels of review driven by market forces and an ordinary person's common sense. Lack of such "user friendliness" either in the consumption of health care services or in the purchase of health insurance, has led to isolation of the "consumer". This isolation is causative in the total lack of confidence on part of the consumer, in the "system".
The same ordinary person who is capable of navigating a complex i-phone cannot begin to protect him/her self without being swindled by or otherwise deluged with "the insurance" gorilla or the occassional "provider" mafioso old boy network, especially, in small town America.

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