What’s I’d like to hear from our politicians is how we are going to move out of this mess. It’s bad, we all understand that. These are not unsolvable problems, however. It just takes the political will and fortitude to look beyond their elected date and 20 years into the future and begin to plot the course.
Reinvest in all elements of our system. Nurse practitioners, family doctors, walk in clinics that specialize in stitches or simple diagnostics.
Prioritize education, starting in high school, all the way through University.
Increase the paid sick time for all working adults, so that communicable diseases are not spread knowingly because a person has to choose between food and work.
Actually evaluate our health authorities on their efficiency and efficacy of care. I suspect you’ll find that a lot of dollars are eaten up by managers managing managers, rather than front line care. Then reorganize the whole structure to experiment and find out what structure will lead us through.
This “new normal” is settling for less than we are capable of as a society, and far less than we deserve.
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