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The burden of illness wellness after a catastrophic event is all too familiar. There are the aftermaths of 9/11 and hurricanes Katrina and Rita serve as testaments. The lack of health and wellness services extends years beyond the actual event. Jut talk to some veterans and their families.
NATIONAL NURSE PRACTITIONER WEEK
NOVEMBER 8-14, 2009
Celebrate Nurse Practitioners –> 125,000 Solutions to the Primary Care Shortage
NPs play a vital role in bringing high-quality, cost-effective, comprehensive, patient-centered, personalized primary care to all populations of the United States.
“This afternoon the President was joined by members of the American Nurses Association in the Rose Garden, where he spoke strongly on the urgent need for health care reform. He explained that the status quo is not an option, and that deferring reform is akin to defending that status quo.
The President praised nurses as an essential component to our health care system, saying without them, many in underserved areas would not receive health care at all. Because they work so closely with patients, nurses know as well as anybody why reform is desperately needed:
And that’s why it’s safe to say that few understand why we have to pass reform as intimately as our nation’s nurses. They see firsthand the heartbreaking costs of our health care crisis. They hear the same stories that I’ve heard across this country — of treatment deferred or coverage denied by insurance companies; of insurance premiums and prescriptions that are so expensive they consume a family’s entire budget; of Americans forced to use the emergency room for something as simple as a sore throat just because they can’t afford to see a doctor.”
Tom Daschle : Health & Human Services Secretary Tom Daschle, the new Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a good choice for the department. He will bring his experience as former Senate Majority Leader to the President’s Cabinet. Additionally, he authored the well known book “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-care Crisis”. It is my understanding, that he will also coordinate the efforts of President Obama’s administration to overhaul and revamp the nation’s health care system, by overseeing the White House Office of Health reform. The Department of HHS focus is on the protection of all Americans.
The Obama-Biden Health Care Agenda states:
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