From Justice for All blog:
President-elect
Barack Obama has nominated former Senator Tom Daschle to be Secretary
of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. His book
"CRITICAL - What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis," (Thomas Dunne
Books, St. Martin's Press, 2008) is quite important for advocates of
the disability and elderly communities. Below are some relevant portions of the book.....
President-elect
Barack Obama has nominated former Senator Tom Daschle to be Secretary
of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. His book
"CRITICAL - What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis," (Thomas Dunne
Books, St. Martin's Press, 2008) is quite important for advocates of
the disability and elderly communities. Below are some relevant portions of the book.....
Here's what he writes about "long-term care," which he recognizes as a "troubling area - and the only one in which we spend less compared to peer nations."
Medicaid "is fundamentally geared toward institutional care, even
though most elderly people prefer to receive care at home or in more
personalized community settings."
Daschle quotes Professor David Mechanic who calls "long-term
care' the stepchild of our health-care system'," which "vividly
exhibits our system's inability to deal with chronic conditions in an
integrated way."
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