Title: Interview with a Pharmacist
Summary: Telephone interview with Pharmacist Robert Templin. He shares his views on health care reform, his personal pharmacy experience, and the pros and cons of a single-payer system.
Topic: Should the Obama administration attempt to convert the United States to a single-payer health care system?
Category: Citizen. Stakeholder
What is it? Telephone interview
Publication Information: None
Author: None
Location: Eugene, OR
Accessed: Feb. 25, 2009
Support:
Robert Templin
Personal experience, and the stories of the Health Care industry.
Audience and Agenda:
Robert Templin has been a licensed pharmacist since 1977, and he has been working as a licensed pharmacist in the state of Oregon for the past 32 years. Templin was kind enough to allow me to interview him on a variety of issues including: health care reform, single-payer systems, government regulation, and preventative care. Templin currently works at Rite Aid Pharmacy in Portland Oregon.
Usefulness:
Robert Templin believes that there needs to be health care reform in this country. As a pharmacist he has seen a system that combines outrageous costs with the disclusion of countless people who are in need of pharmaceutical care. Templin agrees that there needs to be more government regulation of the health care system to include all Americans and that the government should create a system where patients have incentive to pursue preventative care. However, he does not like the idea of the government having sole control of the health care industry because he believes it will mean a lower level of care for all Americans, which would include long waits for procedures and a general moral hazard in the public. Although, Templin does say that a single-payer system would make pharmacy-life much easier because there would be government uniformity rather than the thousands of different billing systems that currently exist from insurance companies.
Works cited:
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