Quality

Introduction

Who has referred you to a physician? Did you have the experience of an insurance company making a decision about your healthcare that you disagreed with? Did you ever receive what you would consider sub-standard care from a health professional? These are the types of stories we are interested in hearing from you. By telling your story, you will encourage other women to do the same and help create a dialogue on healthcare. You can also click on "Help Write Policy" and write a recommendation about legislation you would like to see passed to change the healthcare system in our country as it relates to Quality.

For some sample questions to get you started thinking about what you’d like to say, click here.

Stories: Quality

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Mentally Ill Adult Child

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Read more »From our very first experience with the County funded Mental Hospital, it was clear that uninsured mentally ill patients receive poorer quality care than those with insurance, or better yet, those who may have private funding. Since our son is an adult, he is ineligible to be included on our medical insurance, he was unable to work so he had no insurance from a job, and we are a family with two working parents, and still just making ends meet. Paying for his care would have bankrupted us in about a week.

Spending down savings to qualify for medicare

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Read more »My great aunt is getting very old and since she never married or had children, she has few people to care for her. My mother, her niece, does as much as she can, but we live many hours from her.

healthCARE? The symptoms of challenges to the healthcare system may point to the cure

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Read more »A recent experience with the healthcare system surely highlighted its challenges! Of course the hope is the symptoms may point to the cure. My elderly Aunt, still bright but wheelchair bound and in fairly constant pain after surgery, is in a nursing home situation. I recently went there for a "care conference" - as well as to visit with her, of course. Or at least the 'of course' was apparent to me, that there was and is a person to be cared for and about; the tone of the conference was all about "management." Things are managed, people give and receive care.

Policy Recommendations: Quality

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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!

Holistic Care

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

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.