' May the love for my art actuate me at all time' is a phrase from the Oath of Maimonides, ancient scholar, philosopher and physician. I started sharing my life with Health Care for All Colorado and HCAC Foundation (www.hcacfoundation.org) after the Pediatric practice where I worked was closed, with one month's notice, by its corporate owners. The 'art of medicine' that I loved had become business and billing, rather than science and people.
Health Care for All Colorado Foundation(501c3) is the research and educational arm of its 501c4, Health Care for All Colorado, which advocates and works to build the grassroots movement for single payer health care that is publicly funded. Paying a percentage of income each year in a health care' tax', as we fund public schools, would allow everyone to pay into a health care fund that would pay all providers. The overhead administrative costs are a fraction of what is paid now to a myriad of private insurers. Even more important is the reassurance that no one would go without needed medical care or fear bankruptcy from reams of medical bills. Once that tax is paid, no other premiums, co-pays, deductibles or other hidden costs! For providers, it means less time and money spent on billing procedures, and more time to listen to patients. After experiencing and listening to so many 'health care horror stories' and seeing corporations making medical 'decisions' based on their profits, I took action. Health care is a human right. If each of us pays our share, all of us will live a less stressful and productive life.
Health Care for All Colorado Foundation is leading the way, and I'm with them!
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