Barbara Bush: Health care should not be political

[think]

Barbara Bush: Health care should not be political

By Dana Varinsky - Dec 21 2016

Former first daughter Barbara Bush (George W. Bush’s daughter) has spent the last seven years trying to get more millennials involved with global health issues — a mission she doesn't believe should be associated with politics at all.

Bush, 35, is the CEO and co-founder of Global Health Corps, a nonprofit attempting to develop a new generation of leaders in the health sector. Each year, the organization selects a class of young people — who must be under 30 — and gives them 13-month fellowships, matching them with organizations promoting health equity. Bush describes the model as a public health version of Teach for America — participants are placed with with nonprofits, government agencies, and local health care providers, with the hope that the fellows' experiences inform their careers.

The mission of Global Health Corps, which was founded in 2009, is to mobilize a network of emerging leaders whose professional and ideological motivations stem from the belief that health is a human right. Bush was recently named one of Gerson Lehman Group’s Social Impact Fellows because of the group’s innovative approach and quick growth (last year, the organization got roughly 5,600 applications for 140 spots).

Unlike many global health nonprofits, which focus their work in the poorest regions of the planet, Bush has always felt it was important for fellows to address problems in the US in addition to those in other countries.


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[HughBeaumont]

1. Politicizing and monetizing Health is symbolic of this nation's barbarism.

Bush says she sees two major problems with the US health care system. First, many people don’t have access to health care, whether that’s because they have language barriers; lack proper transportation; or can’t afford fees, premiums, and copays. And second, our system is built to treat people when they get sick, but not to help them prevent illness and stay healthy. Attempting to fixing those issues — as Global Health Corps does — should not be seen as political, Bush says.

Or, DURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, they just cannot afford any part of it, period . . . because it's based on some fucked ancient thinking of "deserving" and "non-deserving". Just like a living wage, education, financial success and retirement are.

America deserves to at least have a multi-payer system like many nations do for their citizens.

Tell you what, if pre-existing conditions come back into play, I'm taking bats to heads . . . because now that's my kid you're talking about.

[smirkymonkey]

2. Wow, she didn't turn out so bad, did she?

The anti-Ivanka.

[Txbluedog]

3. I thought this post was talking about her vortex of evil grandmother

[BumRushDaShow]

8. "vortex of evil grandmother"

[rurallib]

4. let's hope she means it and helps lead the anti-repeal effort

I'll believe it when I see it.

[lunatica]

5. I'm impressed

It looks like the Bush girls turned out OK.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. When

her organization confronts the profit motive she'll find the GOP
support thin and the insurance companies absent.

They say money rules the world, but what they're all really after are
profits - more for them. When that incentive is removed, nobody wants
to do anything. We're especially in this mindset now, because demonizing
is what got Trump supporters to vote for him. Everyone else was a leech,
including the self-serving Democratic "elites". Now the biggest leech runs
everything.

[Ilsa]

9. Yeah, she can help promote healthcare

As a right, but until she convinces daddy's buddies that it shouldn't be a financial issue either, it's just a nice fellowship.

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Exactly

Probably a non-profit too, which always takes care of the owner first.
OK, some things get done that wouldn't happen if capitalists were
bleeding it, but still.

This is a repeated knock on do-gooders. The public, due to the internet,
has now figured it out. That lens will eventually be turned on Trump.

[think]

12. I'm not counting on any great things coming from this but it was nice to see one of the Bush's

promoting health care as a right.

Was a small but pleasant surprise. Maybe though there is hope America will someday join the rest of the modern wold in guaranteeing health care as a right for it's citizens...

[Ilsa]

13. I agree. I can appreciate that about her. nt

[TNNurse]

7. Her mother's daughter.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

10. That daughter seemed like the more sensible one to me.

I don't remember the details of what she's said in the past, but I remember thinking "that one doesn't seem so bad."