Read "Deconstructing Health Care Reform" from the Physicians for National Health Program (PNHP) - pdf of article is provided in module 2 after M2 Assignment and again under Course Schedule, Rubrics, and Assignment Guidelines.
Initial Post: Synthesize the information and summarize points of view from the article. Share your reactions to these points of view. You will not be graded on what your reaction is; your grade will reflect your ability to communicate clearly and factually to the points presented.
Use at least three scholarly references; 400 word. Yes, the article you are reading for the assignment count as one of the references.
So far I have written 216 word
This article challenges the reader to abandon preconceived notions about asking the right questions on healthcare and independently come up with what truly concerns us as patients and healthcare providers. Changing our "frame" of thinking can open up the right dialogue and potentially facilitate real change within our healthcare system (Gardener, 2011, p. 149). Political parties tend to push their agenda and policies; as a consequence the actual issue or problem never really gets addressed. One of the ways politicians manipulate the masses is by providing us with the questions that they believe we should be asking. As Gardner pointed out, the majority of people don't realize that we are not asking the right questions. These issues that the political parties bring up are financially driven, and although that is an important part of healthcare reform, is it the most important? According to The State of Play: Healthcare reform in 2017 article "policy and politics can never be separated (Miyamoto, 2017)." So this begs the question, how do we influence change in policy without being influenced by politics. Gardner suggests that we should focus on caring and prevention of disease and not just the disease itself. She also states that we look at people effected by reform as "citizens and not consumers (gardner, 2011, p. 149)."