by Margaret Anderson, COO, FasterCures
For the past three weeks, the nation's policymakers have turned their attention to healthcare. It seems like each day featured a seminal study, a pivotal finding, a fresh perspective. National statistics and budget forecasts are strengthened by stories from the frontlines. Patient-centered care. Comparative effectiveness. Cost. Private vs. public plans. Government option. Access. Quality. Affordability. Incentives. Health reform's steady drumbeat is at its crescendo.
We at FasterCures stand at the ready to support efforts that hold the potential to fixing what we all know is a broken, unsustainable healthcare system. Our medical research enterprise and the life sciences industry - the forces behind medical innovation and progress - are at stake. Today, we join other health advocates in an effort to ensure that the health reform conversation continues to focus on improved health and an opportunity to gain access to care for individuals, families, and communities. Forty-five million Americans without health insurance is not just a factoid, it's the reality that face Americans whose lives and livelihoods are on the line.
Fixing America’s broken healthcare system is a crucial step toward fixing America's broken healthcure system. Only if we translate promising scientific research into new treatments will we have any hope of reducing healthcare costs, productivity losses, and human suffering.
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On behalf of RetireSafe's 400,000 senior citizen supporters across America, we commend BIO for hosting, the Genetic Alliance for organizing, and FasterCures, Research!America and others for being co-conveners of today's discussion. I'm sorry I can't be there today, but one of the issues I hope you will consider is how "health care reform" can be be built upon a foundation of $600 billion plus in funding cuts to Medicare and Medicare. No matter how it might be spun, those cuts will most certainly hurt the elderly and the poor over the next decade. RetireSafe opposes those cuts, and we will do everything we can to be sure older Americans understand that they will (essentially) be paying for health care reform by cuts to their quality of care.
ReplyDeleteI will leave you with the thought that if these cuts were proposed by a Republican President, we would collectively be marching on the White House. Any health care reform should be funded by all Americans, not on the backs of seniors. Thanks, and best regards to you all,
Al Cors, Jr., RetireSafe (acors@retiresafe.org)