Private Care

Physicians were always viewed as the dominant player in health policy. Now, however, they compete with many other effective interest groups. This is basically a game changer when it comes to healthcare system and method of delivery. I would say organized medicine is simply the organization of the medical profession as a whole. Together they can illicit a powerful organized voice and impact policies and procedures in both a social and professional sense. Over several decades, the greatly differing monetary rewards for procedures and proceduralists versus cognitive decision making and makers have created a greatly skewed the imbalance of too much stuff done to patients who, many times, don't need the care and far too little care of primary and preventive types of disease and illness. The number of physicians entering the lucrative fields far outstrips the others, thus creating and enhancing supply-induced demand for more and more procedures.

The United States could be on the brink of national health reform, however, recent polls show the majority of americans still oppose national health care reform. This opposition comes despite rising health care costs and alarming numbers showing 46 million Americans remain uninsured, and millions more are under-insured. The quality of our health care in the US is also in question considering the U.S. trails behind many other parts of the world in average life expectancy, newborn health and other factors. The failure of National Health care reform is rooted in the middle class. The United States has been on the verge of national health reform since the early 1900s. Since then, the American public has expressed their desire for guaranteed access to health care and health insurance for all. Many also agree that they'd like to see the government play a role in health financing, according to polls conducted from 1930 on. However, support typically tapered off and continues to decline when reforms are based on individuals needing to contribute more to costs. Rising taxes and a potential spike in health insurance premium costs are not favorable among the middle class, and many people worry universal health insurance will cost them too much out-of-pocket.

Previous President Bill Clinton tried tirelessly to pass national health care reform, but in the early 1990s,