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THE QUESTION
What can be done now to improve the health of the nation?
Even if health reform is enacted this year it will take years to implement. What are some things that can be done immediately to improve the health of the nation?
Posted by Washington Post Editor on November 2, 2009 3:33 PM
FROM THE PANEL
Collaboration can help the uninsured
The pharmaceutical industry is committed to helping Congress pass comprehensive health care reform that extends affordable, quality health and prescription drug coverage to all Americans while also protecting medical innovation. However, implementing changes to the system can take time, and...
Posted by David Brennan, on November 6, 2009 9:53 AM
Improving health in the shorter term
Some of the relatively low-cost, high-return ways to improve health and reduce health care cost increases are relatively unglamorous and do not involve big government programs. For example, at Pitney Bowes, we reduced the rate of seasonal influenza and other...
Posted by Michael Critelli, on November 5, 2009 10:55 AM
Keep health alive
As the health-care crusade approaches the homestretch, and the House and Senate work in tandem to deliver on the President's promise of change, no one is quite certain what reform, if any, will materialize. Will legislators balk at the public...
Posted by Chris T. Pernell, on November 4, 2009 11:16 PM
Let's get on with it
If something could be done now to improve the health of the nation without health-care reform, then we probably don't need health-care reform. The idea however that health-care reform could take years to implement even if it is enacted now...
Posted by Kathy-Ellen Kups, on November 4, 2009 5:09 PM
Why not start with self-responsibility by each individual?
We, as adult citizens, with free choice should be allowed to take care of our own health. Each time you pick up a cigarette, you're making a decision. Each time you overeat and don't exercise, you know what you are...
Posted by Sue Falkner Wood, on November 4, 2009 4:40 PM
Let states move ahead
Allow states to move ahead of the federal government by letting them put in public plans based on medicare (but not medicare rates), paid for by the Feds before the federal implementation dates....
Posted by Howard Dean, on November 4, 2009 11:31 AM
Help the buyer be aware
We have improved the cost and quality of everything we purchase in our daily life because we the consumer have been able to get the information we need to make the right decisions. Health care should be no different. The...
Posted by Sreedhar Potarazu, on November 4, 2009 7:48 AM
Start with a smaller burger
What can be done to improve the health of the nation immediately? Meaning the next year or two or three? Three points: (1) Individuals can do many things to improve health in a short time-span; (2) Government has very few...
Posted by Robert F. Graboyes, on November 3, 2009 6:06 PM
FEATURED COMMENTS
tescherm: I am sickened by the democrats who voted against the house health insurance reform bill, and I will be letting them know. I will also be wr...
