Dr. Randy Jotte is an emergency room physician at Barnes here in St. Louis. He is one of forty-two doctors seeking election to Congress this year (see chart at right from Pediatric News). In
ACA Angst Moves More Doctors onto the Ballot, the cover story of the current issue of
Pediatric News, Dr. Jotte is interviewed about his bid to represent the people of Missouri's 2nd Congressional District. Here's an excerpt:
Emergency physician Randy
Jotte wants to represent Mis·
souri's 2nd congressional district.
Dr. Jotte, also a Republican, said
that he decided to run to address
increasing demands on emergency
physicians with limited reo
sources. as well as fighting to reo
peal the ACA.
The health reform law doesn't
give physicians enough resources
to handle a growing number of
patients and increasing demand
to improve quality and to lower
costs. Dr. Jotte said, adding that
as health reform took the national stage, the general public
became more aware of the issues
at stake, and now they're looking
to those who understand the system
to help shape it.
"People are much more cognizant of some of the needs and
weaknesses in the health care systom
.... They look to physicians,
both the physicians that are in
their offices as well as physicians in
Congress and saying 'how can we
do this better."
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment