TrumpCare?
December 5, 2016 -- Ann Farrell forwarded to me a copy of the letter Pam Cipriano, President of the American Nurses Association (ANA), wrote today to president-elect Donald Trump. Ms. Cipriano's heart is in the right place but in my view -- especially given the misogynistic and obstruct-Obama-at-any-cost attitude of the incoming Administration -- her plea for reason is rather anemic. Most of what she requests is already granted by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Thus, this letter serves as a thinly-veiled intercession for its preservation. Alas, there's not much hope for that. What the letter doesn't say is that nurses had little input into the writing of the ACA in the first place and should -- no, must -- be involved in the drafting of any such legislation as we go forward. Pam, stop pulling your punches! |
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"The United States alone [among wealthy countries] treats health care as a commodity to be distributed according to the ability to pay rather than a social service to be distributed according to medical need." — JAMA (2003), 290, 798