Doctors, Patients, Hospitals Must Demand Fair Health Care
T.R. Reid at Husson:
by Christine Parrish
Feature Writer
Health care costs in the United States are higher than in all other countries in the world, and health care costs in Maine are among the top five highest in the nation - but there is little sense in waiting for the government to make it better.
That was the lesson that T.R. Reid, veteran Washington Post reporter and author of the 2009 best seller The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care , learned in the process of making his next film.
"U.S. Health Care: The Good News" will be broadcast nationally on PBS next February.
"We were going to go around the country and look for health care systems that worked and ones that didn't," Reid told an early morning audience of doctors, hospital administrators, and other health care professionals who gathered to hear him speak at Husson University in Bangor last week.
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"There were so many good stories out there that we didn't have time for the bad stories," said Reid. "We found doctors and hospitals that decided they had to cut costs and provide affordable health care."
Reid's research over the past few years has led him to scrutinize health care systems in five developed countries and in India, which is the second most populated country in the world and will soon be number one.
His goal was to find out what worked and why and what lessons could be applied to reforming the American health care system to make it more affordable and accessible.
What he found was that American health care worked fine for the most part. It was health insurance that was failing Americans. And, he said, politicians were unlikely to do much about it because they had political interests to protect back home in their own districts.
"In the U.S.
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