The first step towards improving people's health has gotta be them having access to health care and the medicine they need in the first place.
A start.
All people have access to emergency care. They do not have unfettered access to free lifetime care. There are private groups (religious and not-for-profit) that help. There are family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, pleas for help (coin jar at the 7-11 HELP TIMMY), co-ops, to name a few that help.
The
federal government may not act to help them. Why not? Title 9. Amendmetn IV. Amendment X, Amendment XIII. If we pay for one, we must pay for all. Remember that whole equality thing?
Private institutions being forced to provide uncompensated care have two options:
Overcharge the payng customers to make up for lost revenue(current dilemma)
or
Go out of business (see shrinking ER's across the US) (also current dilemma).
All our curent problems come from government intervention. Why give them the reign to the whole thing?