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Weekly Post
On Sept 22 I posted about my interest in learning more specifics around American Health Care Reform. I promised myself I would try to read multiple articles/blogs a week and/or have conversations with people about it. And that I would post about it for my own reference.
Well I have been reading. This is my weekly summary. There's no expectation/need for comments, etc. While I would be interested in hearing from people, this is ultimately for me.
One of the things I've been looking for is actual Health Care Reform bills. I found a site today that not only gives you a PDF of the HR3000, America's Healthly Future Act of 2009 Senate Bill, but it also has audio recordings of the bill. The site this is all on is called "Hear the Bill ... We Read ... You Listen ... We All Decide." I literally just found this link, so I haven't read or listened yet. Hopefully I'll start that today.
A friend of mine made a Facebook post a couple of days ago saying how depressed she was because the Public Option had been removed from the Senate Bill. I don't know if that's true or not (not that I think she's lying of course). But I couldn't bring myself to look online to find out because I knew I'd be very upset as well. This afternoon I finally forced myself to look. The first link I found was one about Senator Harkin stating that any bill that hits the President's desk will have a public option in it. Senator Harkin is the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. RadioIowa reports that Harken said, “Let me put it this way, we will have a health reform bill on the president’s desk by Christmas. That bill, that he will sign, will have a public option in it." Of course in the same article, Senator Chuck Grassley, from the Senate Finance Committee which is working on another version of a Health Reform bill states that he didn't believe the public option would have the votes to pass. So, a lot more reading and studying me. I'm embarassingly behind on what all kinds of bills are out there.
I found a short video that talks briefly about HealthCare 2.0 featuring Aneesh Chopra, the Federal Government's CTO. Not overly impressed with the content of this specific video. But I linked to it to remind myself to find out more about Chopra as well as more about any technology aspects of Health Care Reform.
I found what seems to be a great site linking to Health Care news: The Health Care Blog. "Everything you always wanted to know about the health care system, but were afraid to ask.
One of the items I'd like to learn more about is the history of health care and health insurance in this country (and others as well). I did find a short video about the history of health care (from a HealthCare 2.0 Technology perspective). (source is the 2009 Health 2.0 User Generated Healthcare Conference site). The video is more sound-bite than anything else. Again a reminder to me to find out more.
I found some blogs about Health Care Reform and debate about how/if it will cause increased cost of health care. Based on a blog by Joe Flower of imaginewhatif.com (cool website name, btw) about the cost of Health Care Reform, I wrote to myself debating to about the cost of health care. This post represents my first real foray into any of this information, so it represents a point-in-time conversation to myself, YMMV.
Weekly Post
On Sept 22 I posted about my interest in learning more specifics around American Health Care Reform. I promised myself I would try to read multiple articles/blogs a week and/or have conversations with people about it. And that I would post about it for my own reference.
Well I have been reading. This is my weekly summary. There's no expectation/need for comments, etc. While I would be interested in hearing from people, this is ultimately for me.
One of the things I've been looking for is actual Health Care Reform bills. I found a site today that not only gives you a PDF of the HR3000, America's Healthly Future Act of 2009 Senate Bill, but it also has audio recordings of the bill. The site this is all on is called "Hear the Bill ... We Read ... You Listen ... We All Decide." I literally just found this link, so I haven't read or listened yet. Hopefully I'll start that today.
A friend of mine made a Facebook post a couple of days ago saying how depressed she was because the Public Option had been removed from the Senate Bill. I don't know if that's true or not (not that I think she's lying of course). But I couldn't bring myself to look online to find out because I knew I'd be very upset as well. This afternoon I finally forced myself to look. The first link I found was one about Senator Harkin stating that any bill that hits the President's desk will have a public option in it. Senator Harkin is the chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. RadioIowa reports that Harken said, “Let me put it this way, we will have a health reform bill on the president’s desk by Christmas. That bill, that he will sign, will have a public option in it." Of course in the same article, Senator Chuck Grassley, from the Senate Finance Committee which is working on another version of a Health Reform bill states that he didn't believe the public option would have the votes to pass. So, a lot more reading and studying me. I'm embarassingly behind on what all kinds of bills are out there.
I found a short video that talks briefly about HealthCare 2.0 featuring Aneesh Chopra, the Federal Government's CTO. Not overly impressed with the content of this specific video. But I linked to it to remind myself to find out more about Chopra as well as more about any technology aspects of Health Care Reform.
I found what seems to be a great site linking to Health Care news: The Health Care Blog. "Everything you always wanted to know about the health care system, but were afraid to ask.
One of the items I'd like to learn more about is the history of health care and health insurance in this country (and others as well). I did find a short video about the history of health care (from a HealthCare 2.0 Technology perspective). (source is the 2009 Health 2.0 User Generated Healthcare Conference site). The video is more sound-bite than anything else. Again a reminder to me to find out more.
I found some blogs about Health Care Reform and debate about how/if it will cause increased cost of health care. Based on a blog by Joe Flower of imaginewhatif.com (cool website name, btw) about the cost of Health Care Reform, I wrote to myself debating to about the cost of health care. This post represents my first real foray into any of this information, so it represents a point-in-time conversation to myself, YMMV.
