President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Tom Daschle as the Secretary-designate for Health and Human Services. He has been traveling to various community health care centers to understand the current situation of health care which will help him formulate a plan to fight the crisis faced by the patients and the care management industry.
Secretary-designate Tom Daschle discussed troubled areas in Health Care:
- Increasing Cost of Drugs
- Insurance Cost
- Cost of Health Care Services
- Cost of trying to get Preventative Care
- Out of Pocket Cost
He also discussed that the first step the government should take is to educate people on the importance of being healthy. Encouraging the general public to stay healthy will make a difference to the ever increasing cost of care.
The most important discussion was the fact that even though the current Health care System is not perfect:
“People are ready to overcome the challenges”
Tom Daschle ended his discussion with a quote by Nelson Mandela
“Many things seem impossible untill they are done”
Nainil Chheda,MS is the Knowledge Research Specialist at eClinicalWorks LLC, Member of ASTM, AMIA, AIIM, PDF/H, EHRVA, HITSP, AIS and ACM, and a practicing researcher on Healthcare Informatics.
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