July 8, 2013
Enrollment in Private Plans requires Preparedness for People
of Color and Work Challenged Population
In Wisconsin, Medicare beneficiaries in Medicare
Advantage are a few percentage points above the national average of 28%. Wisconsin percentage is 33%.
The largest city is Milwaukee – It is also the largest
URBAN city – and the gateway city of Wisconsin.
It is also an Enduring Concentrated Poverty city that is by-design. To change this oxymoron, reform at the
INFRASTRUCTURE level is paramount, while at the same time reform takes place in
other quality of life and economic development areas driven by the People who
live, work, educate their family members, build businesses, worship and make
laws at the census tract and neighborhood level.
Health Care is a quality of life issue that affects
all other issues. Many, many, many
Milwaukeeans have gone without proper health care for extended periods of
time that have been decades and therefore behaviors planned or unintended are
present. The lack of proper health care
and personal management by Milwaukeeans (known and mostly unknown) is vital to
repair, revitalization and balancing/rebalancing the MINDSET of the people for
a “paradigm shift”?.
Come October 1, 2013, those who have been without
personal and usable health care for preventable and existing care will be
thrust onto the competitive privately managed health care options of the
Affordable Health Care act. Are we
ready? No. Will we be ready? Not at the rate and sharing that is coming
forth. However, we can realistically in
joint-tenancy start to lay the foundation for proper “transition” for the next
3-4 four years. The period between NOW
and March 30, 2014 is crucial for PREPAREDNESS.
Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC is committed
and taking a stand to see that the necessary building blocks are put in place for
Milwaukeeans to be able to not only select their insurance plan based on needs,
market availability, cost sharing, brand loyalty, bonus ratings, data points and
advantages; but, to grow as working-together with those who are payers of insurance – public
and private.
We must all do our part to BUY-IN to the necessary
reforms of best practices, stewardship, TRUST and accountability of ALL to
BALANCE the elephant in the room.
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| 2013 Affordable Health Care SUMMIT & FAIR |
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