A Healthier You - The Demanding Patient

This is Bob Tufts of My Life is Worth It for A Healthier You. As a multiple myeloma patient, I have strong views on health care reform. This includes the belief that a demanding patient is good for the health care system. Improvement in health care is best accomplished through investment in innovation, not cost cutting. Patients like me are demanding innovation, because our lives are at stake. Our demand is that we have access to and choice in treatments without third parties, public or private, placing unnecessary obstacles in our path. We will push back against restrictive insurance rules and formularies, obscene co-pay requirements, and time consuming data entry requirements that waste doctors’ time. We will work with doctors to focus attention on cures, not dollars. The “demanding patient” will create a better health care system, for everyone. Because we are all patients, eventually. For more details, go to Facebook/BetterHealthCarePolicy.