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Health Care Reform: Considerations

By Ludmilla - Nov 7th, 2008 at 12:35 pm EST

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In my current position, in government relations and public policy, we are focusing on Health Care Reform, something we desperately need in this country. Although we work with AIDS organizations we realize that none of the strategies to combat the epidemic have worked because we lacked a "national comprehensive strategy on AIDS", while we do require PEPFAR countries to have a national strategy under the UN legislation.

Healthcare reform should include all chronic illnesses rather than exclusively designing programs for diseases which have been so politized (like HIV/AIDS) and throwing others in groups. Health Care Reform should consider HIV/AIDS funding such as Ryan White to be incorporated into the reform and get rid of the constant fights we have seen during the reauthorization of this particular Act, a fight between groups of different sexual orientation when in fact the face of this crisis is that of those who are economically marginalized, communities of color.

We have to stop creating segregation when we legislate for health care and hopefully the new health care reform team will seriously consider that.

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