Keynote Address
DAVID WHITE: It gives me a great deal of pleasure to introduce to you the person at CTAA, who for, I guess, 14 years now, and at least 10 of the last 14 years has been leading the fight here at CTAA on
DAVID WHITE: It gives me a great deal of pleasure to introduce to you the person at CTAA, who for, I guess, 14 years now, and at least 10 of the last 14 years has been leading the fight here at CTAA on
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I thought one of the more interesting things he brought up was how changes in care have made transportation more important. People live longer, survive accidents, survive cancer and serious illness, and they go home sooner and go back for regular therapy more. Doctors, he pointed out, don't make house calls. And this trajectory is continuing, and it means transportation is really part of providing health care in a way that it wasn't in the old days.
A very interesting discussion of the history of the government’s involvement in public health.
This website from the Department of Health and Human Services http://healthreform.gov/index.html addresses a few of the issues he discussed and talks about the past and future of various programs.
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