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A brilliantly innovative and successful program to slash Medicare hospital readmissions (from 20% nationally, to our stunning 6%) by hiring otherwise unemployable combat medics to care for discharged elderly patients like beloved grandparents, to help them transition home with health.

Feds say unnecessary readmissions cost $17 billion annually. There are 20,000+ combat medics and corpsmen returning from Iraq and Afghanistan where they installed chest tubes in wounded soldiers, but who can’t get health jobs in the U.S. because they’re not legally qualified to put a bandaid on a civilian.

Our John C. Lincoln Health Network’s Transition Coach program solves both problems, and can be – should be! – replicated by hospitals everywhere in the country.

With healthcare being such a hot topic nowadays, and healthcare reform having such a negative connotation because people aren’t seeing any impact… my team and I put together a quick minute long video in a hasty 24 hours about the detrimental path of the healthcare industry right now. I was wondering if you could review the video and possibly give us some feedback on it. Our message was sort of focused on progress, and how just like previous generations had the civil rights movement, etc as their legacy, the basic human right to healthcare should be the millennial legacy.
Here is the video link: https://vimeo.com/rxadvance/millennials
It took over two centuries for many of our friends and families to be considered a whole person, to be allowed access to the same standards of living as white Americans. Our sisters, mothers, and our close female friends can tell a similar story. Radical change did not happen overnight. Chaos occurred with the civil rights movements, and even more recently, the acceptance of the LGBT community. Unhappiness is inevitable. Progress does not happen without turmoil. That is the dialectic.

It took centuries to make this much progress and we are finished. Our less fiscally fortunate friends, family members, and neighbors are denied access to the basic right of good health simply because it is outside of their means. Classism should not prohibit citizens from their basic right to health, to life. Every life matters.
The current state of healthcare reform is not working. Healthcare costs are rising, not because the idea is bad or that we do not have the means, but because we are still in the stage of turmoil. Not everyone is in agreement and because of that, we will not have radical change. It will not be perfected until more and more people are in support. It is the independent organizations and individuals that are causing the reform not to perform the way it should. It is the lack of support. And that is normal, just like with previous generations’ battles. There is not a single time in history where everyone is happy. America is based on progressive change, not radical change.