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Health Care Reform Hits Home
By Laura Knoy on Thursday, November 12, 2009.
There’s been plenty of debate over whether to overhaul America’s health care system. But if a bill passes, New Hampshire will have to figure out how to make all the federal changes work with all of the state health care policies and programs already in place. We’ll get to the bottom of how this transition would work, and where there might be bumps in the road.
Guests
- Ned Helms, director of the New Hampshire Institute for Health Policy and Practice at the University of New Hampshire
- Charlie Arlinghaus, president of the Josiah Bartlett Center for Public Policy
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I hear a lot of talk about the money cost of health care reform, but I'd like to remind everyone of the human cost of not enacting reform. 45,000 people die every year because they cannot afford health care, and that doesn't include all those who suffer preventable or treatable pain, illness, and disability because they can't afford health care.
The U.S. comes up with money whenever it really wants to, especially for war, but the untreated 45,000 Americans dying each year is way more than the number of Americans ever killed by terrorism. If we don't pass health care reform now, how many more years will pass before we tackle this issue again and stand a chance of passing it -- and how many more Americans will die or suffer in the meantime?!
I've always wanted to say that, I just didn't have the words. Well done.