They listed strategies to put their situation and demands across to the current government. These strategies include a letter writing campaign, civil disobedience, a website for physician consensus, petitioning elected officials to take action on their concerns, email campaigns sent to the President and Congress, forming a physicians' union, refusing insurance and political games, and a one-day strike off their patients to draw attention to their objective (2009). Summary and Viewpoints

A recent interactive survey showed that half of all American adults want the current healthcare system reformed (Business Wire, 2010). The Institute of Medicine Committee likewise found that the system badly needed repairs (English, 2001). In addition to 13 recommendations and 10 rules, it sought a $1 billion innovation fund, a list of the most common and chronic medical conditions and disorders from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and renewed commitment to information infrastructure and new technology (English, 2001). Thorpe (2005) suggests addressing increased health care spending in a number of ways. One is through a CDC-prepared comprehensive workplace health promotion program, which can provide strong financial and non-financial proactive incentives to both employers and employees. Another is the introduction of standards for regular physical activity in schools. The high cost but low benefits derived from medical technologies may be addressed by developing state data and assessing the costs and benefits of medical technology. This is the third initiative. Levine and co-authors (2007) perceive access to healthcare as an ethical or moral issue and propose four reforms. Healthcare leaders, on the other hand, propose a combination of reforms that will address and correct the current delivery system and financing inequities (Brauser, 2009). And physicians feel it is time they lobby for their own professional interests and send their clear message to the President,...

Writing letters and petitions, a website for their consensus, civil disobedience, unionization, avoiding insurance and political games and a one-day strike from practice to call attention to their concerns. All these reforms have their respective merits but the one deserving of greatest support is treating healthcare as an ethical and moral issue. It underlies the basis of all other reforms. #
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