McCain vs Obama: Common Ground, Pt.9 – Commonality on
preventive measures.
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Many recent comprehensive health insurance/care studies have
provided evidence of the importance of having a "medical home".
Health insurance studies that are not comprehensive, like
simple surveys, fail to bring out the extenuating effects that
result from the lack of a ‘medical home’. These are things like
lack of preventive care, duplicity in diagnostics and errors in
medical communication (both medical and administrative). On
other health insurance preventive care issues there is more
commonality.
A few of these are initiatives to promote “smoking cessation
and weight loss programs, especially those offered by
employers,” according to the FactBox article. Further health
insurance/care initiatives that both candidates promote are
‘outcome merit’ rewards. They both agree that a major downfall
of today’s system is that it, inadvertently, rewards quantity
but not quality. This is believed to be one of the greatest
contributors to the out-of-line medical costing that our nation
is now experiencing. They both agree that mechanisms need to be
set up to change this. Even at this time, Mr. Obama is working
toward a mechanism to reward physicians for spending more time
with their patients in order to affect the prevention of
diseases. The rewards would be based on an outcome of
measurable success of the prevention, not the quantity of
treatment given.
Looking to the larger picture of reducing health
insurance/care costs nationwide, we are given some metrics.
Both candidates are fixed on reducing overall health
insurance/care costs. Mr. McCain wants to “slow the
double-digit growth that now makes health care spending 16% of”
our nation’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product), as stated by the
FactBox article.
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