Abstract

Health Care for People's Needs

The current health care reform debate has focused narrowly on the question of who should pay for citizens' health coverage and how costs should be contained. The article presents views of various health care professional and scholars about the health care policy in the U.S. According to Jennifer Dohrn, a nurse midwife, there is an urgent need to envision reform that would reduce the size of these huge medical complexes. Hospitals should be dedicated to handling highly complex or sensitive conditions. Routine health care should be put back in neighborhoods, where families can have easy access for their day-to-day health needs. According to Lowell Levin, professor of public health, the plan proposed U.S. President Bill Clinton has nothing to do with health, he says that it is an insurance bill instead.