Doctors Say Lack of Health Insurance Coverage Impeding Care
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And, if he can do so without overburdening doctors with paperwork, limiting their health care options, or cutting their paychecks, he'll be a very popular guy.
According to NPR, many doctors feel that our current system is making it impossible for too many people to afford health insurance coverage, and as a result, they're seeing people who are too sick to be treated as they should.
For example, someone with quality health insurance coverage is more likely to go to well check appointments, to be counseled on appropriate lifestyle decisions, and therefore, are less likely to get sick in the first place.
Furthermore, those people who can't afford coverage are more likely to wait until their sickness has progressed to a dangerous degree, making it very expensive to treat them, if it's possible to treat them at all.
In fact, Dr. Nancy Nielsen, president of the American Medical Association, says the biggest problem facing doctors and patients alike is when patients don't have health insurance coverage.
This is why Obama is claiming that his plan will save over $1 billion in 10 years in minimized services alone.
Right now the argument about how to go about creating a system that provides good health insurance coverage to all citizens is raging hotly throughout the Senate.
But most people agree with Dr. Richard Roberts, a "family physician" who has been practicing in Wisconsin for 23 years: "The debates about whether it needs to be single-payer or multipayer, I'm going to leave that to the politicians ... I just want to get it done and have everybody covered."