The Medical Society of New York did a survey of 1,363 Physicians to get an idea on their priorities for agendas on health care and public health. Read on:
Question 1: If you had one issue for Congress and the President to work on, which would it be?
35% Expanding Coverage for the uninsured
30% Reducing Health Care Cost
18% Improving Medicare Part D
10% Improving quality and reducing errors
6% Reduce spending on Government Health Care Programs
Question 2: Same question but what do you want addressed for Public Health?
67% Increase spending for medical research such as cancer, diabetes and cancer.
13% Do more to prevent AIDS/HIV
5% None of the above
1% Don’t know
What do you think??
4 responses so far ↓
Jason O'Neill // January 15, 2007 at 6:29 pm
I would definitely side with improving quality and reducing costs. The use of automation (information technology) is essential to reducing unnessary errors, and thus lowering the cost of providing the cost of health care. Too many common errors, are made due to reading illegible medical records and prescriptions that cost lives, unnecessary hospital visits, and mountains of medical bills.
For the second question, I would side with research. Research is the science behind the medicine. Scientists, not the FDA, are the ones who are going to provide solutions to fight disease. The next step after that is to separate the Big Pharma’s financial control of the FDA, which put all of us at risk.
David Anderson // January 16, 2007 at 2:29 am
The one aspect which would greatly improve health care is an automated prescription system. Estimates are that misread prescriptions kill more people than cocaine abuse, drunk driving, firearm murders, terrorism, and second hand tobacco smoke combined. We rightfully spend billions upon billions on combating those problems, yet we refuse to invest a relatively small amount where it will make a difference. Worse yet the physicians according to this poll don’t even rank it in the top three of the agenda. Beam me up (to quote an ex-congressman).
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betterdealfordelaware // January 19, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Stand by for more on Electronic Health Care Records and the power of automation.
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