Jim Lehrer’s questions for Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama were standard issue from every other presidential debate. Martha Raddatz got much more pointed and specific. Tonight the audience gets involved in the 2012 presidential debates.
Healthcare will surely come up — make sure “death panels” and “ending Medicare as we know it” are on your drinking game list. Here’s hoping that the people at Hofstra University follow Raddatz’s example and get specific. I asked the MedCity News team what questions they would ask. I got a few ideas from Twitter as well. Thanks to Cameron Graham of CGConsultingNC for the first question.
Here is a list of questions that focus on the issues facing healthcare entrepreneurs and industry executives.
7 questions for both candidates:
- Can you explain how your healthcare reform plan will incentivize prevention?
- How will your plan to reform healthcare create more jobs?
- The OpenNotes project shows that improved communication between doctors and patients improves healthcare decisions and can save money. What will you do with funding or new laws to help entrepreneurs who are trying to make this communication easier?
- What do you think the government’s role in fostering innovation is, and what policies or programs would you keep, end or create?
- What health apps do you have on your phone and which ones do you use regularly?
- Is it the government’s responsibility to fight obesity?
- What structural changes are you willing to implement to preserve Medicare for generations to come?
2 questions for each candidate:
- Governor Romney: If you win, will you accept the healthcare provided by the government to the president of the United States?
- President Obama: How can you justify the medical device tax?
- President Obama: You’ve set aside billions of dollars for the adoption of electronic medical records. How are you ensuring that patients will actually see the benefit of EMRs?
- Governor Romney: You have changed your position on abortion several times. How will you resist the pressure from your party to keep this medical procedure available for cases of rape, incest and pregnancies that threaten a woman’s life?
What would you ask?
By Veronica Combs
I am the editor in chief at MedCityNews.com. I started writing and editing in the print world and joined a dotcom right before the 2000 crash. I was at TechRepublic/CNET/BNET for 7 years. Health was more interesting to me than the latest version of Windows, so I left for a startup tracking prescription drug news. A year later, MedTrackAlert was acquired by HealthCentral, so I shifted to audience research. The fun of daily news and interviewing smart people brought me to MedCity News in February 2012.More posts by Author
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I have many more and I really liked the article.
1) How can either party Justify the lives ruined(divorces while one member is in jail , money problems created by excessive fees and fines, etc) by unconstitutional drug laws on a federal level by always diverting to illegal imagation policies and why do these aliens who are not citizens take priorty over citizens of the United States when it comes to amnesty of any sort.
2) First of all if another terrorist attack happens under your watch how would you treat the situation.
3) Do you believe in just war or is all war considered wrong.
4) If you believe in fiscal responsibility how can you justify Fiat currency and currenet rules applied to banks.
5) Why does Meoxico take presidence over Canada, Britian, Israel in our list of Allies.
6) How can you justify our government statist views towards its responsibilities on healthcare,Welfare,chroni-politics
7) Do you believe in private property(if so why demonize those who have more of it)
8) Do If it is wrong for anyone to lie for whatever reason(Tax Fraud, Ponzi Schemes, Political broken promises, Cooking the Books,etc) why is it ok for the Government Officials to do things especially when they are running for office.
9) Do you believe in Freedom of speech. Then why are corporations or religious groups limited on what they can do and who they can support.
@shl_mmodal Thanks for the RT!
@medcitynews No problem! Great article, as per usual :)