Title: Interview with Professor Jon Palfreman
Summary: University of Oregon Professor and Journalist Jon Palfreman discusses his views on health care reform and single-payer insurance. He breaks down the reform process into two main objectives: affordability and inclusion for all Americans.
Topic: Should the Obama administration attempt to convert the United States to a single-payer health care system?
Category: Citizen. Stakeholder
What is it? In-person interview with Jon Palfreman
Publication Information: None
Author: None
Location: Eugene, OR
Accessed: Feb. 26, 2009
Support:
Jon Palfreman
Findings, opinions, and conclusions from his journalistic research on health care.
Audience and Agenda:
Professor Jon Palfreman is a journalist that has been researching the United States health care system over the past year. He has completed one documentary on health care that aired for Frontline, which is named “Sick Around The World.” Palfreman is a journalist who has won several prestigious awards including: an Emmy, Dupont, and Peabody Award. He is currently working on another documentary for Frontline, and it is also about the U.S. health care system.
Usefulness:
Professor Jon Palfreman believes that in the midst of health care reform in the U.S. there are two key objectives that need to be reached: we need to create a system where all Americans have insurance coverage, and the government must make it affordable for people. Our current system has 46 million people without insurance coverage, and those who do have health insurance are paying too large a percentage of their income for their coverage. While Palfreman does believe that the government needs to have control over prices to assure that health care is affordable, he does not think that a single-payer system is politically feasible in the U.S. because of the insurance giants; they will not leave quietly, and they will use financial persuasion to guarantee their survival. Palfreman sees the German or Swiss systems as much more practical templates for reform considering the political structure of the U.S. He believes that it less crucial to agree on the perfect system, and instead address one crucial question: will it work?
Works cited:
http://jcomm.uoregon.edu/faculty-staff/jonp
wikipedia.org
google.com
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