“At current prices, with the current system, healthcare for everyone sounds like more than we can afford. However, billions of dollars wasted, and healthcare costs crippling many American businesses, and with tens of millions unable to access good healthcare even if they have some form of insurance, universal health coverage is a serious issue in political campaigns and in the country in general”(Fred Friendly Seminar). How do we fix it? Is the subject of Reinventing Healthcare? “This Fred Friendly Seminar explores the dilemmas and urgently needed policy decisions surrounding what has become, literally, a life-or-death issue. Arthur Miller a New York University law professor guides a team of high-profile panelists. AARP CEO Bill Novelli, former U.S. Comptroller General Dave Walker, Washington Post Bureau Chief T.R. Reid and Harvard Business School health guru, Regina Herzlinger, along with family doctors, business owners, hospital administrators and health policy experts” were guide through a series of hypothetical case studies that caused them to struggle with the tough decisions that must be confronted with make healthcare reform a reality.
“The Fred Friendly Seminars format uses hypothetical scenarios to reveal the dilemmas, the choices and the decision-making processes confronting all sides” on this critical issue such as:
Is Healthcare a Right or Privilege?
In the video Dr. Eduardo Sanchez, clearly point out ” America pays more money on a per capital basis for supposed health care that any other country in the world, and whether you look at mortality, infant mortality, morbidity rates, other kinds of measures of health, American do not stack up anywhere near the next highest spending country. So with this being said should America ensure that all of its citizens have healthcare. Some might agree that healthcare is a privilege, not a right. Now let’s contemplate on a situation that makes these individuals feel this