Kleeb listens to health care concerns

Journalstar.com ^ | 7-30-2008 | Don Walton

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Scott Kleeb listened Wednesday to the complex challenges of a health care system increasingly under duress. The Democratic Senate nominee sat down at lunch with seven Lincolnites who are engaged in health care policy to explore their views as he prepares his own legislative plan. Increasing health care demands, growing numbers of people without health insurance, rising costs, huge problems in Medicare and Medicaid funding, all complicated by an economy in distress. “We are unable to meet the demands out there,” said Steve Bray, executive director of the People’s Health Center.An estimated 30,000 Lincolnites do not have health insurance, Bray said. Inadequate Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements are shutting off access to a growing number of Lincoln physicians, said Joan Anderson, executive director of the Lancaster County Medical Society. “People are falling through the cracks,” said Beatty Brasch, executive director of the Center for People in Need. “There’s an ongoing erosion of Medicaid in the state,” said Becky Gould, executive director of Nebraska Appleseed.“A real retreat in terms of access to services.”Lori Seibel, president of Community Health Endowment, said advocates have had to find “creative solutions to get around roadblocks” in a system that seems to be turning into “health care by negotiation.” Gould said she believes health care reform should be “a blend of public-private, with subsidies kicking in at the right place.”Brasch said she supports a universal health care system

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