How much do you really know about healthcare reform?
Posted by Guest Blogger on Fri, Dec 04, 2009 @ 12:47 PM
By Marty Ogle, M.D.
As a practicing emergency department physician, I've been following the nation's healthcare reform debate very closely. I'm sure doctors, nurses and healthcare professionals in hospitals and emergency rooms throughout the country are doing the same.
While I certainly have my opinions on how I would like the healthcare reform issue to play out, I've also been taken aback by the news coverage - which has often been inflammatory at best and hysterical at its worst. Just give me the news and forget about the rant, please. What I want to know is: are we going to get healthcare reform? And if so, what's it going to look like?
If you're as frustrated with the quality of the news coverage as I am and would like a great source of information, go online to the NPR site. It's thoughtful, unbiased and provides excellent coverage and debate. You'll find it at: http://tinyurl.com/NPRhealthcare where you'll have access to a variety of articles, a blog, and videos on everything from "what healthcare reform means to consumers" to following the healthcare debate in congress. No hysterics, just the facts. And facts are what we need most these days.
I urge you to visit the site - and please forward any of the sites or resources that you think provide good, solid non-biased healthcare reform news. We're all in this together, so let's stay informed