Have You Been Heard On Healthcare?

I was sitting in a Dunkin Donuts the other day doing a blog on location. As I was doing my thing I was listening to some people at another table discussing the ongoing battle to reform healthcare. There was a pattern to how each person presented their view and points. And I realized I had witnessed that pattern or a form of it many times before.

The pattern
First the group obviously was self contained. They each knew each other enough to express themselves freely. Many of their statements contained versions of “do you think they are…” or “Has anyone heard they have” addressed this or that and “Are they doing anything about this..” You get the picture.

The truth be known
It’s nice to talk among friends. It’s great to step forward and be a facilitator or contributor. If you have a concern about healthcare reform and what is it encompassing, research, ask and speak out. Hundreds of people were exploring flight much the same as the Wright Brothers. They took it one step farther. Then someone else took it another step farther. We went from puddle jumping to planet hopping because people spoke the questions that needed to be explored. Healthcare needs your initiative to ask your question whether it has been heard from somewhere else before or not. Why? Because the right questions are asking many times before the right person find the right answers. That is how initiative will speak the creativity to breach the gap from questions to solutions.

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I have to tell you I don’t agree with the present direction of Obama’s plan. I will tell you I understand it is a political hot potato. I will even compliment the President on his efforts. They are a beginning.

The system is killing us
The truth is it has been killing for longer than you realize. If you go back through history, calls for healthcare reform began as far back as there are records. Even with all that history to eludes us in the U.S. to get it right. Insurance companies were the quick fix of the early 20th century. In my own lifetime I knew of Senator Ted Kennedy calling to be proactive in reimagining healthcare in the late 60’s. No one was listening to a man who could afford to buy his own hospital predicting the systems demise. Say what you want he called it forty years ago. Then again, so did President Harry Truman in 1945. Before him Teddy Roosevelt lost an election in 1912 because of his call to overhaul healthcare.

Truth about the failure in healthcare reform
Any heathcare reform movement is doomed to fail. Why? We don’t apply the rules for achieving success to healthcare. We want a definitive successful plan in place now. Success as a rule comes from trying again and again. Einstein didn’t just sit down and the Theory of Relativity. Newton didn’t figure out the law of gravity over lunch. There was a lot of crumpled papers and restarts. And congress didn’t have a hand in there efforts either though what surrounded them at the time was politically charged controversy. When can’t fix the healthcare on the Senate or Congressional floors. We have to fix it in the field as we go along. We have to be creative, flexible and willing to keep trying and freeze out the political agendas and the lobbyists.

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In all honesty can you say you feel that empathy and the same way about a person who has a form of cancer and a person who has a from of mental illness? Most people do not. Most people experience an empathy for the cancer patient they don’t hold for a person with mental illness. This may be ingrained in society, but that doesn’t make it right. It is dead wrong.

Pose a problem suggest a solution
Education is the most powerful weapon we have. Society has to get over not exposing children to mental health awareness at an early age. Our mental and physical health should be taught to he held on an equal level. In fact children learn that their mental health is key to their overall health. We have to stop thinking we are protecting them by withholding the knowledge. I am not saying to teach them ph.d level information. I am saying they need to know more that a ditty like “a health mind – a health body.” By teaching the basics of how the ditty becomes reality and incrementally employing more knowledge as they go through school, mental health becomes main stream just as physical health is. And yes I am talking going beyond the 10 minutes out of one school day a year. If physical ed is a standard, so should mental ed.

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