Title: Telephone Interview with Barbara Walter
Summary: A telephone interview with Barbara Walter, who is a Registered Nurse in the State of California, to discuss health care reform, single-payer systems, and the Obama administration.
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: Mar. 1, 2009
Author: None
Location: None.
Accessed: Mar. 1, 2009
Support:
Barbara Walter
Forty years of work and experience in the health care field.
Audience and Agenda:
Barbara Walter has worked in the health care field for that past forty years, and is currently a Registered Nurse at the San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center in California. She has achieved her Masters in Science and throughout her life she has dedicated her time and energy to help others.
Usefulness:
Barbara Walter believes that health care should be viewed as a human right; not a sole privilege for those with money and jobs. She feels that President Obama contains a moral compass that has been missing in Washington as of late, and that he will approve measures that will improve health care in America. Even though Mrs. Walter would love to see a Universal Health Care system in the United States, she feels that there are currently too many political and socio-economic barriers that are preventing such reform. In all likelihood, health care reform will include changes to the current system through government regulation. So, a larger amount of the population will become insured, but Mrs. Walter’s views this type of reform as a mere stepping stone to a single-payer system. She also believes that a single-payer system will be borne out of an opportunistic window. With talks of change and new directions in Washington, many single-payer advocates are hoping that the Obama administration proves to be that very window of opportunity.
Works cited:
wikipedia.org
http://medschool.ucsf.edu/sfgh
google.com
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