I will write more about Sarah Palin later, particularly contrasting her decision to have her child Trig while Barack Obama was voting against a bill that made it illegal to deny medical treatment to babies that survived abortions and ghouls like the despicable Howard Brody who root for both aborting and witholding life sustaining care for infants with Down's Syndrome...
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For now it is worth mentioning that when campaigning for governor Palin promised to come up with a plan to provide all Alaskans with the opportunity to purchase affordable healthcare. She did. She established the Alaska Health Care Strategies Planning Council which in turn came up with a proposal to promote transparency of health care costs, deregulation in the formation of health care businesses to promote competition and expanded tax beneftis to support health savings accounts. The Palin plan also redirected state health spending towards electronic medical records, expansion of community health clinics in rural areas and increasing eligibility of the SCHIP program to 200 percent of poverty level. Further, Palin had instructed Alaska's Dept. of Health and Human Services to develop a goal-oriented action plan to improve the quality of care in nursing homes, increase foster care monitoring and quality, reduce child abuse, increase the amount of preventive care covered and paid for by Medicaid, reduce the incidence of SIDS in Alaska which is three times the national average due to a combination of genetic and risk factors unique to the Alaskan-Indian population. Last time I checked, that is called a record of accomplishment and action...
A news account and a copy of the final report of the Planning Council can be found here and here:
Read here
http://www.hss.state.ak.us/hspc/
The HHS goals can be found here: http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/09_omb/budget/HSS/
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For now it is worth mentioning that when campaigning for governor Palin promised to come up with a plan to provide all Alaskans with the opportunity to purchase affordable healthcare. She did. She established the Alaska Health Care Strategies Planning Council which in turn came up with a proposal to promote transparency of health care costs, deregulation in the formation of health care businesses to promote competition and expanded tax beneftis to support health savings accounts. The Palin plan also redirected state health spending towards electronic medical records, expansion of community health clinics in rural areas and increasing eligibility of the SCHIP program to 200 percent of poverty level. Further, Palin had instructed Alaska's Dept. of Health and Human Services to develop a goal-oriented action plan to improve the quality of care in nursing homes, increase foster care monitoring and quality, reduce child abuse, increase the amount of preventive care covered and paid for by Medicaid, reduce the incidence of SIDS in Alaska which is three times the national average due to a combination of genetic and risk factors unique to the Alaskan-Indian population. Last time I checked, that is called a record of accomplishment and action...
A news account and a copy of the final report of the Planning Council can be found here and here:
Read here
http://www.hss.state.ak.us/hspc/
The HHS goals can be found here: http://www.gov.state.ak.us/omb/09_omb/budget/HSS/
