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Coloradans, he said, "speak for countleszs others acrossthe nation. All they ask for is a healtnh care system that works for a health care systemthat doesn’r crush them with unreasonable cost and a health care systemk that doesn’t deny them coveragse just because they have pre-existing conditions." D- Colo., also touted his own proposalxs to make patient transition care more cost-effective and "In Colorado, we haven’t waite d on Washington," he said. "We’ve made real progress in showing how to provide high quality health care at alowet cost.
" Bennet, formerly superintendent of the Denverd Public Schools, was appointedr to the Senate by Gov. Bill Ritter to fill the seat vacated by Ken Salazar when Salazarr was picked by President Baracjk Obama as secretary of the Here is the full textof Bennet'e Senate-floor speech as prepared for delivery Thursday, providwe by his staff. In the speech, he is addressin the president ofthe Senate. Mr. President, I rise todayh to discuss the urgent need for healt hcare reform. The people of Colorado, and the Americahn people, have waited for too long for Washington to act. We should begin with a basic principle: if you have coverage and you like it, you can keep it.
If you have your and you like himor her, you should be able to keep them as We will not take that choicee away from you. But even as we keep what we must confront the challenges of soarinv health care costs and the lack of access to qualityhealth care. The status quo is Every day, families in Colorado and across America facerising premiums. Their plans offer fewer They are denied coverage becauseof pre-existinfg conditions. And until we fix the health care we won’t be able to fix the fisca l mess in which we find ourselves. Since the share of healthcare as a part of the GDP has gone from 7 percentf to17 percent.
The Unitexd States spends over $2 trillion in healthg care costs, including over $400 billion on Medicare alone. President Obamwa has said that the biggest threaft toour nation’s balance sheet is the skyrocketiny cost of health care. And he’xs right. In Colorado, we haven’t waited on Washington. We’ve made real progress in showin g how to provide high quality health care at alowef cost. Last week, the New Yorke r magazine published an articleentitled “Th Cost Conundrum” that highlights the important work that’ss been done in Mesa County, Colorado.
Over thirty years ago this communityserviny 120,000 people came together—doctors, and the non-profit healtn insurance company. They agreedc upon a system that paid doctore and nurses for seeing patients and producing better quality They realized that problems and costs go down when care is more InMesa County, the city of Grand Junction implemente d an integrated health care system that providee follow-up care with patients. This follow-up care has helped lowerd hospital readmissions rates in Grand Junction to just 3 Compare that to the 20 percent rate and it is clear that our community on the Westerbn Slope of Colorado is ontosomething groundbreaking.
High readmissio rates are a huge problem for our Nearly one in five Medicarew patients who leave a hospita are readmitted within thefollowingb month, and more than three-quarters of these readmissionz are preventable. Rehospitalization costs Medicareover $17 billion a It’s painful for patients and families to be caughy up in these cycles of treatment. All too care is fragmented you go fromthe doctor, to the to a nursing home, back to the hospital and then back to the doctot again.
Patients are given medicationm instructions as they are leavinythe hospital, many times after coming off of strong They don’t know whom to call, and they are not sure what to ask theire primary care doctor. The solution, both our Denver and Mesa Countg health communitieshave found, is to provide patientas leaving the hospital with a “coach.” This coachn is a trained health professionakl connecting home and the hospital. This coach teaches patients how to manage theird health ontheir own.
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