It’s Not Us Versus Them; We Are All in This Together

By Dr. Evelyn Higgins

Washington is under the false impression that all it will take is a new tax, a new czar or a new bailout to fix health care in America - that the problem is US versus THEM. All eyes will be on Washington on Wednesday for the State of the Union to see and hear the new 'answer' to our health care ills. The problem is that the real solutions are not even on the drawing board. The problem is that we don’t have our problem defined. The problem is that we don’t have a health care crisis at all, but rather a problem in how we think about health care. The problem is that the administration wants a government-run bureaucracy that will dictate and define prevention and treatment. We are all in this together and we need to have positive solutions - positive for everyone, not a few. Positive solutions for what 'We the People' want to see. [more...]