Learning Module 1: Achieving Health Care

Healthcare in the United States is changing constantly with different reforms from different ideas of the president and Congress. I found this article about how achieving health care reform and how physicians can help.  There are two threats in particular that put reform at risk: conflicting doctrines (regarding the creation of a new public insurance option and government support for comparative-effectiveness studies) and opposition to change among some current stakeholders (Fisher,2009). The good thing about a physician position they have the chance to wait and see what happens or to lead the change our country needs. The article explains that physicians should first help to create a shared vision that could overcome doctrinal divides — and bring providers together to create a system better aligned both with public needs and with providers' fundamental interests and values (Fisher,2009).

I think the Healthcare reform is a challenge for anyone that has the opportunity to make changes because you will never be able to satisfy everybody in the U.S with different Acts for Healthcare.
If stakeholders can agree on such a vision of health care reform, perhaps we could shift our focus from the conflict over whether a new public plan should be created to a more constructive insistence that all health plans, whether public or private. However, neither physicians nor anyone else on the front lines can improve care much on their own. Their most important source of support for improvement is the third level described by the IOM — the health care organizations that house almost all clinical microsystems and can ensure coordination among them (Fisher,2009). The article explains that physicians can help by their support and help to develop integrated systems of care. So I feel like the U.S. Healthcare can become better over time if the physicians and congress, and legislation become one.

Reference

Fisher, Elliot. (2009, June, 9) Achieving Health Care Reform-How Physicians Can Help

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp0903923