A CEO's view of health care

At American Public Media, the Kaiser Permanente CEO George Halvorson, about what universal healthcare needs in order to become a reality. This current reform is focusing on cost savings while still providing a high quality, affordable care. Health care also needs to work on taking better care of the people in public.

Halvorson also looks at what is needed to make healthcare available for all. Medicare needs to be available to all low income people, and those in the middle income bracket need to have the option of subsidized care. Its also key for communication to increase between all healthcare providers to provide better care for all.

Read the whole interview here.

Daschle & Gupta: U.S. Healthcare Dream Team?

Pia Sawhney's article on The Huffington Post discusses how our health care may or may not be saved by Tom Daschle and newly appointed Surgeon General Dr. Sanjay Gupta. With President-Elect Obama's Universal Healthcare on the table, many are wondering just how much influence these new appointees with have on United States Healthcare. Read what she has to say and form your own thoughts. We'd love to hear your comments and suggestions for the state of health care in the U.S. please post here!