Thoughts about Health Care Reform
As a holistic health professional I am very interested in the future of health care and in the current debate regarding health care reform. In striving to understand what is at stake, what is being proposed and how I feel about all of it I have hit several roadblocks in my understanding. I heard questions raised about whether the government offering a public health care option would be socialist (but we have a public option in the education sector – our public schools and universities – and that hasn’t put private schools out of business). I also heard concerns about whether a public option would create a poor standard of care (but our standard of care in the U.S. already ranks so low and isn’t competition-even if it’s federal- supposed to drive innovation).
