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Health Insurance/Care Overhaul, Pt.1 – Commonwealth Recommendations.

Following up on the previous article ‘Sweeping Demands on Health Care’, the Commonwealth Fund has offered a list of recommendations to resolve the current health insurance/care crises that is disturbing so many Americans, as many as 90% of them. Their most recent report is entitled ‘Organizing The U.S. Health Care Delivery System For High Performance’ and offers strategic solutions toward “higher quality and better efficiency,” as per the Science Daily News article. First, some further input from Julie Steenhuysen, who has posted an article for Reuters on their www.reuters.com/ website might further underscore the pressing need for serious health insurance/car reform. In her article, Julie also confers that over 80% of our citizens are demanding a complete overhaul to our ailing health insurance/care system or, at least, fundamental foundational changes. Based on the same survey, she expounds that people are requiring more easy access to health care. They also need greater coordination and cooperation among medical providers as well as better information flow of medical records and patient history.

All these complaints are in the wake of other negative findings concerning the unreasonable health insurance/care rate hikes that Americans have been suffering. There are many sources who have independently provided proof, among them was a Harris Interactive poll showing that health insurance premiums have doubled in cost just since 1996, whereas income increases have been miniscule, by comparison. The summation of it all comes from the noted expert Karen Davis, who explains "It's clear that our health care system isn't giving Americans the health care they need and deserve.” Karen is the president of the Commonwealth Fund, a nonprofit New York-based group who have been tracking the health insurance/care crises for a long time now. It was the Commonwealth Fund who commissioned this recent survey.

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