Healthcare Policy Recommendations

Introduction

How often do you get a chance to help guide your representatives when it comes to issues like health care? By helping to write the WomenMatter Health Care Wiki, you will be creating health care policy that can be shared with decision-makers in order to demonstrate the direction that you, as women and as citizens, would like them to take regarding health care. For some sample questions to get you started thinking about what you’d like to say, click here.

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Keep insurance companies out of decisions about medicines

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Doctors should make all decisions on what medicines a patient should take. Keep the HMOs, and all insurance companies out of it!

All Americans should be required by law to carry health insurance

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All Americans should be required by law to carry health insurance.

Holistic Care

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The goverment should provide incentives for all of a patient's doctors to work together as a team.

A Walk in Clinic for Every Neighborhood

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Every neighborhood and rural area should have a walk-in clinic- especially for pediatrics.

Medicare For All

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Read more »The time has come for we as Americans to realize that our health care system is failing us. In the 1940's we made the fateful decision to have business pay for health care through insurance companies. That decision has led to a business model of money-driven medicine, that looks to the bottom line for success, rather than to the health of American citizens. As a for-profit business, health care costs have risen to a level where even businesses can no longer pay for them.