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BigGovHealth.org features powerful, first-person video testimonials from patients, health care workers and health policy experts from Canada and the United Kingdom – two socialized systems often pointed to as models for reform. These candid interviews look at the costs and consequences of systems that oftentimes try to lower costs and ration care at great expense to patients’ health and well-being.
Health care is arguably the most important domestic policy issue facing the United States. Our country is confronted by major challenges, including rising costs, the uninsured and improving quality.
In this presidential election year, lawmakers, academics and interest groups are offering competing approaches to reform, which range from consumer-driven, market-based innovations to expansive new government-run bureaucracies.
As the policy debate matures, it is important that policymakers, the media and the public understand that government-run health care is not a prescription for reform in the United States. Increased government control over our health care system will stifle innovation and competition, placing patients at greater risk.
BigGovHealth.org offers an online portal of information, news and first-hand accounts about the consequences of greater government control in health care. The site includes:
- Video testimonials. Patients, health care workers and thought leaders discuss their highly personal, moving experiences with government-run health care systems in Canada and the United Kingdom.
- Health care horror stories. Around the world, government-run health care systems often entail long wait-lines, a diminished quality of care and the denial of life-saving treatments.
- A resource center with facts and figures. All health care systems are not created equally. This section offers case studies of reduced patient care in countries with government-run health systems.
- Media Center. Read news stories, policy papers and opinion pieces pertaining to the health care reform debate.
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The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest Advance (CMPI Advance) is a nonprofit, non-partisan 501c4 organization that sponsors the communication of ideas that focus on the understanding by policymakers, the media and the general public of medical innovation and to effect change in public health care policy in a way that makes health care more affordable, preventative and patient-centered.