Comments on: Health Care http://www.mikecritelli.com/2007/08/21/health_care/ Mike Critelli's Blog Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:00:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Lorraine Haber http://www.mikecritelli.com/2007/08/21/health_care/#comment-1126 Lorraine Haber Thu, 18 Oct 2007 03:20:32 +0000 http://www.mikecritelli.com/2007/08/21/health_care/#comment-1126 <p>Hi Mike,<br /> I enjoed catching up and reading your blog. You raise an excellent point about the value in making secure mail voting available to Americans and how it can increase voter participation. However, in the current polarized political environment, isn't there a danger that this can be misused? It's possible that one party's strategy is to adopt mail voting in states where they are likely to gain enough extra votes to win and to opppose mail voting in states where increased voting would favor the opposing party. Because the current system leaves these decisions to states, do you think there's potential for abuse? I'm not suggesting abandoning the idea, only making a case for the importance of total adoption by all states in order to ensure fairness to all voters.</p> Hi Mike,
I enjoed catching up and reading your blog. You raise an excellent point about the value in making secure mail voting available to Americans and how it can increase voter participation. However, in the current polarized political environment, isn’t there a danger that this can be misused? It’s possible that one party’s strategy is to adopt mail voting in states where they are likely to gain enough extra votes to win and to opppose mail voting in states where increased voting would favor the opposing party. Because the current system leaves these decisions to states, do you think there’s potential for abuse? I’m not suggesting abandoning the idea, only making a case for the importance of total adoption by all states in order to ensure fairness to all voters.

]]> By: Karla Bailey http://www.mikecritelli.com/2007/08/21/health_care/#comment-1122 Karla Bailey Wed, 22 Aug 2007 04:25:09 +0000 http://www.mikecritelli.com/2007/08/21/health_care/#comment-1122 Mr. Critelli, I couldn't agree more. I hope to be a part of re-making a basic preventive- and wellness-focused healthcare system in the U.S. It's my objective to TRY to do so in New Orleans if the city will welcome me and some passionate, committed, talented others into their home - they've certainly opened it up to a lot of "helpers" since Katrina, but still we have "deaths up 47% in New Orleans" (see USA Today, June 22-24, 2007). Mortality is up precisely because the "broken" healthcare system that existed in New Orleans for "the least, the last and the lost" prior to Katrina, is even more broken if it exists at all (the article said one of the public hospitals serving the "under-served" is still not open post-Katrina). So where better to start (than New Orleans)? Already at rock bottom, there's no where to go but up. Yet it will take an UNCOMMON valor...uncommon soldier to fight the systemic issues that have stood in the way of sustainable, economically-responsible but always moral change in the US healthcare system. Your comments were very insightful. I look forward to reading more from you on the subject in the future. Mr. Critelli, I couldn’t agree more. I hope to be a part of re-making a basic preventive- and wellness-focused healthcare system in the U.S. It’s my objective to TRY to do so in New Orleans if the city will welcome me and some passionate, committed, talented others into their home - they’ve certainly opened it up to a lot of “helpers” since Katrina, but still we have “deaths up 47% in New Orleans” (see USA Today, June 22-24, 2007). Mortality is up precisely because the “broken” healthcare system that existed in New Orleans for “the least, the last and the lost” prior to Katrina, is even more broken if it exists at all (the article said one of the public hospitals serving the “under-served” is still not open post-Katrina).

So where better to start (than New Orleans)? Already at rock bottom, there’s no where to go but up. Yet it will take an UNCOMMON valor…uncommon soldier to fight the systemic issues that have stood in the way of sustainable, economically-responsible but always moral change in the US healthcare system.

Your comments were very insightful. I look forward to reading more from you on the subject in the future.

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