Health & Reform

Those who are economically at a disadvantage are also at a disadvantage medically. The poor find themselves dependent on public care rather than private. Therefore the poor have no regular relationship with a physician and are treated by a doctor on duty who does not know their patients making the possibility of great quality care to being less than those who have private care.

The poor are also more likely to live in rural areas where access to quality care is minimal and are more likely to be treated by foreign medical school graduates. Many of these rural areas that the poor live in have shortages of doctors because many American trained physicians prefer to work in wealthier areas and in cities. 
  
Health care reform is a government policy that affects health care delivery in a given place. It's main aspirations is to give more general care to its citizens by expanding the array of health care providers and health care specialists that consumers can choose from, improve the quality of health care to its citizens, as well as making it more affordable.

On the polar end of 'Health & Reform',  those in wealthy, gated communities have the highest quality of care because they build their own system where they hire physicians to live withing the community. These physicians are on call 24/7 for all the members who live and contribute to the physicians salaries. This allows these very wealthy individuals to get instant quality care without the hassle of waiting in a doctors office, but in the comfort of their own homes. Nor do they have to worry about traveling to clinics and hospitals to get cared for. These individuals get the highest quality of care in a moments notice. 

 David Mechanic a medical sociologist says, “..that if we brought the country’s most talented health experts together and asked them to design a health care system that gives as little value for money as possible, they would have trouble coming up with a system that does any better than the one we have now.” He also states that, “there is no getting around the reality that having forty-six million people uninsured in the most affluent health system in the riches country in the world is unacceptable and shameful.”

Health care for Americans can seem as a commodity best improved through a competitive marketplace with minimal regulation.

I strongly believe that health care is a public obligation and an individual right rather than a form of service for profit mating in an unregulated market place.

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