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Reform health care for full access and coverage

    Forty-seven million people lack health insurance — and if we don’t act now, that number will become 56 million over the next five years. In fact, in New York state, 2.6 million people are uninsured. This isn’t just a national problem — it’s a crisis that touches all of us.
    Locally, our health care organizations work each day to provide care for uninsured and under insured patients. We are proud of the great work our associates and medical staff do to ensure our patients receive the care they need. But we cannot solve the problem of the uninsured and under insured alone. Even as nonprofit organizations, we still must pay salaries and balance our books. Together, these conflicting realities make us particularly sensitive to the economic and human damage being done by the system as it now stands.
    The odds of real reform are better now than they have been in decades. During this campaign year, we strongly encourage you to carefully evaluate each reform proposal. At our health care organizations, we strongly believe that any proposal must commit to reforming the health care system and that 100 percent access and 100 percent coverage is the destination that each American deserves in their journey toward great health care.
    As you listen to each proposal, we encourage you to ask the following questions: Will health care system be redesigned so that I can easily get clinically excellent health care? Will anyone be left behind? Is my coverage decent? Are the vulnerable covered? Can I get health insurance? Can I afford my plan? Will my plan be there tomorrow?
These views are not meant to be divisive or partisan. We must come together now as citizens to advocate for the reformational change needed to heal our health care system.
VICTOR GIULIANELLI DONALD MASSEY
Amsterdam
The writers are president and CEO, respectively, of St. Mary’s Hospital and Amsterdam Memorial

People always have access----they just cant afford you, me or anyone else.....we all want to make a living....and a living we think we deserve.....someone
wants to pay me $10/hour and someone wants to pay me $25/hour.....what to do what to do what to do??????hhhhmmmmm.....this is America....

someone wants to pay NationalGrid $100/month and someone wants to pay NationalGrid $500/month.....what to do what to do what to do.....hhhmmmm

we cannot afford ourselves and those in charge, whitewater/protitute purchasers/oil gurus etc......all want the rest of us to think in terms of "nice humani
tarian work"........I say kiss my freakin' butt........

someone wants to pay NYS thruway tolls and someone doesn't want to pay NYS thruway tolls......hhhmmmm

smoke and mirrors........baaa baaa baaa......