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Healthcare Goals
Devise a healthcare system for the US that meets the following objectives:
1. A capitalist model that has the patient as the capitalist.
2. Shift competition to patient care and away from cost-cutting and service denial by measuring quality of service (patient’s health results) vs. process compliance.
3. Relieve American businesses of covering healthcare for employees so they can better compete with non-American companies.
4. A system that focuses on prevention vs. treatment after the fact.
Once established, we have to come together with the specific plan that we are prepared to support by collecting signatures, signing petitions, and pushing for referendums state by state until we establish a national program that works for all the people. |
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Dedicated to Mikel and Auntie Eva |
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Putting the ‘care’ back in healthcare |
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The PI -- THE PUBLIC INTEREST (the-pi.org; the-pi.info)
Reason for Being
Special interests have so overtaken our political system, that some of the basic interests of all of the people either don’t get addressed or get the ‘band-aid’ treatment. Thus, the pPI has been born. This is not a rightist or leftist organization. pPI is for people, not ideologies.
The first challenge of the pPI is healthcare. Right now, the only way an insurance company can make money, is by denying the very services they’ve been hired to manage. They have no real incentive to help patients – that just costs them more.
As for our political representatives – they have the best healthcare package any one could ask for. If they try to make anything more than minor changes in our healthcare system, they could lose their enviable healthcare coverage for their families.
I ask you – would you give up such coverage – work against your own and your family’s best interests? That’s a lot to ask of anyone. Now add in the myriad special interests and their lobbyists who are making a fortune off the current system. Do you think they’ll let Congress stop their gravy train? Of course, you don’t.
So what are we going to do about this? There have been books written, institutes have conducted studies enough…now is the time to solve the problem. |
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Hi, I’m Linda Bistany |
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Not About Me I really don’t want to make this about me — it’s about the issue — results driven, affordable, ever-improving healthcare for us all. But if you’re curious, I’ve worked in the nonprofit sector for over 20 years on the organization side at Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and as a consultant helping nonprofits raise money through direct marketing. In fact, I’m a freelance consultant now. I should be focusing on building my business, but I can’t help myself. My mother always said: just give you a soap box, Linda… My mom knows me well. I’ve dedicated this effort to two people who meant a lot to me: my brother Mikel, who I lost in 2003 to mesothelioma and my Auntie Eva who I lost in 2006 to complications from a heart-valve replacement operation. Perhaps if we had already had a more results-driven healthcare system, I would still have both of these wonderful people in my life. They give me the hope and courage to push ahead with this effort. _______________________ pPI – The Public Interest
Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.
When a circle’s diameter = 1, its circumference is pi.
When we are one, we have the power to help everyone. |
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