We The People

It's Thursday, July 9th, 2009, and it's time for we the people to take over health care reform.

It's time for a revolution.

"I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this any more!" said Howard Beale (actor Peter Finch) in the 1976 movie called Network.

I'm not as histrionic as Howard Beale in the movie, but the patient's life is at stake. The patients health is at risk. The patient must be the most powerful entity in the health care system, not the lobbyists, the government, the HMOs, the insurance companies, the hospitals, or the drug companies.

I'm a patient, physician, and economist, retired due to injury and illness, and I have seen how important it is for the patient to be in charge of their health care. And health care should be based on good science with some good incentives for preventative medicine.

There are more patients than there are bureaucrats. That gives us the power to take over health care reform. We have been silent long enough.

Bradley Hennenfent, M.D.
patient, economist, & physician
retired due to injury and illness