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Social Responsibility
HCI takes pride in publicly supporting a single-payer universal healthcare system for all Americans. Because of our knowledge and insights, we have a moral duty and public interest responsibility to proactively participate in the national healthcare public policy dialogue.
HCI's healthcare management, planning, and
public policy consultants are available to ensure that healthcare
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...become sophisticated purchasers and consumers utilizing timely
healthcare information.
In Brief: Why The United States Has Failed To Develop
A Single Payer Universal Healthcare System
- Corporate-financed elections of Congress and the President --- special interests' lobbyists pay to play; Americans accept leftovers; costs escalate; coverage benefits are slashed. Political campaigns should be publicly-financed through tax revenues. It is the best investment Americans could make in our government.
- Most Americans are complacent and uninformed --- disinterest and reliance upon special interests nurture lucrative economic opportunities; greed and power trump Americans' healthcare access and well-being. The media have masked the truths about our dysfunctional healthcare non-system. It tends to perceive the paradigm in the context of an employer-based insurance model.
- Insurance and other special interests have proactively and aggressively under-mined the public interest in some Americans' pursuit of a Medicare-expanded or single payer universal healthcare system public policy. They create new insurance products to deter more in-depth analysis of the costs associated with administrative expenses, marketing costs, operating overhead, and bloated profits and executive compensation.
- The Iraq Misadventure has drained massive resources from domestic needs inclusive of healthcare, college tuition assistance, education, and other vital social programs.
- Fraud, greed, waste, abuse, fragmentation, decentralized finance, and political corruption siphon the resources requisite to have an accessible, affordable, high-quality, and safe healthcare system.
- Ideological conservatives have used gay marriage, flag-burning, tax cuts, earmarks, hollow political ethics reform, and other diversions to gridlock Congress and forestall meaningful change to the detriment of most Americans.
- Incremental/token reform (insurance-creep) has been used as camouflage for cosmetic, superficial, and ineffectual change. The piecemeal approach serves to buy time and sustained profitability for special interests inclusive of the insurance, for-profit healthcare provider, and financial services industries. Politicians who claim Americans aren't ready for fundamental systemic change are wrong. They would be well-advised to accelerate their advisors and consultants' understanding of it and lead more candid and forthright information campaigns in support of it.
- Progressive advocacy organizations supportive of a single payer universal healthcare system engage in a Silo Effect --- they lack common goals, become competitive for attention and support, lack cooperation, fail to communicate and coordinate with each other, fail to educate, and fail to trust the public's ability to process information. Anecdotes and slogans supplant the drumbeat of facts necessary to embolden and empower broad bi-partisan support for fundamental change. Politicians respond with promises of incremental and fragmented 'insurance' remedies, which have no prospect of establishing universal solutions for the healthcare access, accountability, affordability, quality, and patient safety crises.
The Case for A Single Payer Universal Healthcare System
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Informative
Links: Documents, Media and Research Reports
Prudent
healthcare purchasing and consumption require an informed
public. Frequently,
HCI provides our clients and visitors to this site with
links to timely and interesting articles and web sites
on the Internet, which we review and evaluate. These include
a broad spectrum of healthcare access, cost, quality, and
public policy issues useful to healthcare consumers and
purchasers. In addition, we consider other public policy issues, including foreign policy germane to any discussion of resource allocation of funds for Americans' healthcare. We encourage visitors to do more Internet research
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