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Promoting Meaningful Healthcare Reform

From the Show: Mindful Medicine
Summary: What would it take for a national healthcare system to work?
Air Date: 6/20/17
Duration: 26:31
Host: Holly Lucille, RN, ND
Guest Bio: John Newport, PhD, DrPH
Dr. John NewportJohn Newport is an author, speaker, commentator and outspoken advocate for health care reform. He holds doctorates in health services and psychology, with a background spanning 50 years in healthcare policy analysis, health services administration and wellness advocacy.

As an author, he has published four books, including the best-selling Wellness-Recovery Connection, and over 300 articles and opinions focusing on healthcare issues, addictions and wellness promotion. 

He is currently a featured columnist for Counselor: The Magazine for Addictions Professionals, and a frequent contributor to TV and radio newscasts and print media throughout the country.
Promoting Meaningful Healthcare Reform
American healthcare is mired in controversy. Finding affordable healthcare for pre-existing conditions is a great concern for the population. 

Mandatory healthcare costs don’t necessarily appeal to the healthy uninsured. Young, healthy individuals aren’t all inclined to subsidize healthcare costs for folks who are ailing. Those enrolled in the government option are often plagued with illness or aren’t old enough for Medicare coverage.

A system that empowers and incentivizes everyone to take charge of their own healthcare might make a government-mandated healthcare system more effective.

Listen as Dr. John Newport joins Dr. Holly Lucille to discuss how healthcare reform might actually work.

**To access a full article by Dr. Newport on this topic, find his post HERE.