According to The Harvard Crimson Congress has been debating health care reform for months, and yesterday evening the dialogue came to Harvard when Jeffrey Crowley, the current White House Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy and Senior Advisor on Disability Policy, spoke to an audience of 50 at the Law School. What he discussed with the students was how the new health care plan was going to cover everyone living with HIV/AIDS even those that are living with some type of disability. Crowley feels that this could possibly be the key to solving our health care crisis, along with our economic crisis. Crowley stated that "He noted that the Obama administration is the first to create a specific national AIDS policy. “You have to have not been paying attention to see that the Obama administration has put health care at the forefront of its agenda,” Greenwald said when introducing Crowley. This is a good thing for our society to hear, because a lot of people have begun to lose hope when it comes to the health care policy. They feel that nothing is really being done to help those that are living with HIV/AIDS because people are still dying because they're not able to get the treatment that they need in order to help fight against or maybe even cure their virus. Now that Crowley has made it clear that President Obama is doing everything in his power to change the health care policy that will make it focus a lot on those with the virus, people will now have hope again.
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I understand that the aims of President Obama and Director Crowley are to provide medical coverage to people with HIV and AIDS, but it is also pertinent to consider the economic implications of covering costs for these people. MSNBC reported in 2006 that it costs about $600,000 over the lifetime of an HIV/AIDS patient for treatment. It is clear that even a small population of such patients would lead to millions of dollars in costs to American taxpayers. The economic implications of health care reform is one of the main reasons why lawmakers have voiced opposition to a hastily crafted reform bill. Further deliberation about a reform bill--deliberation that takes into account the economic impact of reform--would potentially lead to a vast majority of lawmakers lending support to legislation concerning health care.
ReplyDeleteThis is the first I've heard of President Obama addressing HIV/AIDS along with health reform. Although I agree with some of what the first comment said, stating that it would be costly to include people who are infected with HIV, I strongly believe that we still need to include them. It would be an inhumane decision to separate people with HIV/AIDS or any other disease from health reform just because it may cost more. These people are also sick and the government should have their interests as well. Plus, action towards HIV/AIDS are needed regardless. So, if this health reform didn't include HIV/AIDS patients, another policy would be implemented.
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