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Healthcare in the Forefront, Pt.1 – Don’t lose sight of it.

Thankfully, our nation has spawned some stalwart leaders who are not giving up the fight for urgently-needed effective health insurance/care reform. President and CEO of a Boston-based healthcare consulting firm called Bender Strategies LLC, Ellen Lutch Bender has written a rallying article for the Boston Globe that was posted on boston.com. She lauds Senator Clinton’s valiant effort as having been the best health insurance warrior we have seen so far. Even though Senator Clinton is no longer considered a presidential hopeful, she has vowed to never give up the fight for bringing about a comprehensive health insurance/care reform. She still has a large, devoted gathering of followers. She is hailed for keeping this comprehensive reform agenda on the “front burner”.

There is evidence that the health insurance issue may slip from the limelight of politics without the stalwart support of the many faithful that brought it there in the first place, under Hillary. So the call goes out to keep that from happening. Even though the forefront has been overtaken by the shattered economy for quite valid reasons, it needs to be pointed out that even the economy can’t be healthy without “a functioning healthcare system”, as Ms. Bender puts it. What’s so tough is that all roads are rough. There is no one road which satisfies all constituents, there are many diverse directions and many will be alienated. But it should be common sense that any nation that pays the most per capita should visibly receive the best healthcare. This country is already way out in the lead, with paying 20% of our GDP toward health care. We are leading the world in medical research, but woefully falling short in delivering comprehensive health insurance benefits to our people.

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