Deliberative Dialogue on Healthcare Choices: Costs and Care

Dr. John J. Theis is a professor and member of the Board of Directors of the National Issues Forum Institute.

John J Theis

Healthcare: How Can We Bring Costs Down While Getting the Care We Need?

Deliberation does not advocate specific solutions or points of view but provides citizens the opportunity to consider a broad range of choices, weigh the pros and cons of those choices, and meet with each other in a public dialogue to identify the concerns they hold in common. Find out how to leverage the power of personal experience, different viewpoints, and the kind of intelligent exchange that leads to a shared purpose and acceptable solutions. There’s a space between agree/disagree waiting to be discovered. When it comes to society’s most challenging problems, our elected officials are often stuck between a two-party rock and a hard place. That’s because they aren’t getting honest input from the people they serve. You can change that, by reviving a lost democratic practice: deliberative decision making. In this Deliberation, we will be delving into the topic of Healthcare.High health-care costs affect all Americans, often in deeply personal ways. This guide is designed to help people deliberate together about how we should approach the issue. It suggests three options for deliberation, along with the trade-offs each might involve. Each option presents advantages as well as downsides. Each raises questions for which there are no easy answers.If we create a single government program to pay for everyone’s health care, would taxes rise and quality suffer?Can gradual reforms hold costs down and still get everybody covered?Should we take responsibility for our own choices in a more transparent and competitive marketplace even if that means those who make poor decisions will suffer the consequences?Improving the US health-care system routinely presents choices between holding the line on enormous costs, covering more people, and maintaining the choices and quality of care Americans deserve. Which should be our priority?A link to the WebEx will be sent to the email you use to register the day before the dialogue.

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