How Do We Pay for Health Care?
Posted by philhardwick on June 29, 2009 There seem to be weekly snapshot pools on what people think of health care reform. A better tool, in my opinion, for guaging the public sentiment on this issue is a report prepared for the Kettering Foundation that was released June 19, 2009 at briefings in Washington, DC. The Stennis Institute held one of the forums last year for this report. Here’s more info about the report: The report, titled Public Thinking about Coping with the Cost of Health Care: How Do We Pay for What We Need , presents outcomes of the 2008 National Issues Forums (NIF) where participants used the issue book titled Coping with the Cost of Health Care: How Do We Pay for What We Need? in deliberative public forums around the country. The following are excerpts from the report’s executive summary. This report examines public thinking about the rising cost of health care–the values, thoughts, insights, and struggles voiced by a diverse collectio