013 Top Priority | Healthcare Priority Initiative

What can good look like in Healthcare? What are win-win solutions for patients and doctors alike? What is Scope of Practice and Certificate of Need? And how are these barriers to people accessing quality care? Answer to all this and more on ep013 of Top Priority | Ideas for Human Flourishing.
Show: 013 Top Priority Podcast | Healthcare Priority Initiative  
Date Recorded: December 17, 2019
Host: Duane Lester, Manager of Issue Education, Grassroots Leadership Academy 
Guests: Charlie Katebi, Health Policy Analyst, Americans for Prosperity
Elliott Fox, Director of Healthcare Initiatives, Stand Together

Show Notes & Timestamps
  • What is our Stand Together Community doing in the Healthcare space? min [3:45]
  • What external barriers keep people from accessing quality, affordable Health Care? min [7:20]
** What is Certificate of Need? How is it a barrier to accessing quality, affordable Health Care? min [7:35]
** What is Scope of Practice and how are Scope of Practice revisions removing barriers? min [14:07] 
** What are the barriers to Telemedicine  that need to be removed? min [21:40]

  • What internal barriers keep people from accessing affordable Health Care? min [24:44] 
  • How our Community views Health Care through the lens of the first mutually-reinforcing principle—Equal Rights. min [36:45]
**The violation of Equal Rights is forcing practitioners to beg for permission from the government to care for patients who want the service.**
  • How our Community views Healthcare through the lens of the second mutually-reinforcing principle—Mutual Benefit. min [38:48]
**We value win-win solutions for patients and doctors.**
  • How our Community views Healthcare through the lens of the third mutually-reinforcing principle—Openness. min [41:22]
  • How our Community views Healthcare through the lens of the fourth mutually-reinforcing principle—Self-Actualization. min [42:50]
  • How to think about Healthcare solutions through the lens of “What if government didn’t do that?” min [44:17] 

**Additional Resource**