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Sweeping Demands on Health Care, Pt.2 – What does America really want?

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The group who administered the survey was Harris Interactive, Inc. What was found was that almost no one wants to see minor changes or band-aid fixes in our health insurance/care reform. In fact, it was found that 82% of them (projected as 82% of the adults in our country) believe that the our present health insurance/care system “needs a complete overhaul.” That is: “it should be fundamentally changed or completely rebuilt,” as phrased by The Commonwealth Fund. The survey didn’t stop here. The Commonwealth Fund is able to deliver much more comprehensive detail of the discontentment. Here is the broad breakdown:

•  90% believe health insurance/care reform needs to be a top agenda for our next president.
•  90% believe that it is important to have a ‘medical home’.
•  90% want easy access to their medical records for both themselves and for their doctors.
•  82% believe that our current health insurance/care system is so bad, it needs a complete overhaul.
•  80% promote the need to create measures to improve on efficiency.
•  73% had a trouble getting “timely doctor’s appointments, phone advice, or after-hours care without having to go to the [ER].”
•  47% of those who had become patients “experienced poorly coordinated medical care in the past two years.”
•  39% said it was “hard to get through to their doctors on the phone when they needed them.
•  33% reported that, within the last two years, their doctors had either:
                  1)  Performed wasted testing, where the tests had already been ran, but the doctor failed to acquire the results of the other tests and ordered new ones,
  
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                               2)  Ordered unnecessary treatment or care. Ø 26% had difficulty getting same- or next- day appointments when sick, even with health insurance.

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