Hillary Clinton Announces Agenda to improve the Quality of health care of all americans?

Question

Yesterday in New Hampshire, Hillary announced her vision to improve the quality of health care for all Americans, detailing her commitment to improving health care delivery and creating financial incentives to ensure that all Americans get the right care at the right time.

Read more about her vision to improve health care quality on our website:

http://www.hillaryclinton.com/healthcarequality

While the dedicated health care providers in the United States are among the best in the world, many Americans worry about the quality of care they receive. For the amount of money that we spend on health care, Americans should be getting better quality care.

A 2006 survey from Kaiser Family Foundation and AHRQ found that 51 percent of Americans were dissatisfied with the quality of the nation's health care system. And a RAND study shows that American adults on average fail to receive about half the recommended care that modern clinical science says they need.

Building on the proposal she announced in May to reduce health care costs by $120 billion a year, Hillary's vision for quality health care returns patients to the center of the health care system by empowering those who provide care -- physicians, nurses, other clinicians, and health care organizations -- and relying on their skill to improve that care.

I hope you will read these proposals and help us spread the word by forwarding them on to everyone you know who cares about the quality of health care in America. Hillary wants these proposals to be the first step of an ongoing dialogue, and I hope that you will reach out to me with your ideas. We look forward to continuing this important conversation with you.

Answer 1

yes,and she wants world peace & patrick kennedy---

Answer 2

Sounds great. But who is going to pay for it?

Ah, one of those questions you nor anybody else wants to answer.

And by the way, I'm still waiting for my free lunch.

Answer 3

Did not read article

any health care plan coming from the HILL will be socialized medicine. ask any veteran who depends on our current socialized system  for them how they fare.

a big problem are HMO's who reward execs for denying ligit claims (United Healthcare CEO was paid $15million last year) and a consulting firm (McKinsey) that has shown insurance companies how to increase profits by dening claims. The providers are paid less and less each year while administrative costs of healthecare have skyrocketed. The HIPPA law passed under Bill&Hil has accomplished only one thing...increased admin cost of healthcare

Answer 4

If it involves socialism on any level, forget it.

Answer 5

Hmm, I think I just felt a pain in my wallet...

Yep, I just received a $$-ectomy, care of Hillary-care.

Everyone belly up to the Government Trough, there's plenty for all!!

/sarc

Answer 6

We will have to raise taxes for a nationalized health care system - period.

Americans have to bite the bullet and accept this, or we are finished with actually implementing this idea.

A raise in the sin tax might work for this - raising alcohol and cigarette taxes.

Answer 7

I will admit i did not read the whole article (i am at work) but I am all for change in the health care system. I am curious though, how will this be paid for? all the funding she proposes, where will it come from?