change:healthcare CEO Christopher Parks is this months “You Ask It” expert on SHOUTAmerica.
What is “You Ask It”?? Well it’s an online interactive forum where you can submit questions to leading healthcare experts.
So if you are confused about your health insurance, curious about the changing face of the health care industry, wondering about consumer directed health plan and transparency… Christopher has the answer.
The SHOUTAmerica Conference was a huge success! About 100 student n leader, presenting almost a million students across the country, attended the conference to hear CEOs, Senators, House Reps and health care educators speak about the current healthcare crisis. By the end of the conference once puzzled students emerged engaged and ready to make a difference!
The new LiveBlog on the SHOUTAmerica documents the conference, student sentiments, and speakers.
In recent months, as the days pass and the election approaches, the future of our healthcare systems seems less and less stable.
In researching new developments in healthcare reform and activism, I came across a “haunting” video while exploring a new site geared toward engaging individuals in sustainable solutions to the impending healthcare crisis - SHOUTAmerica.
By haunting, I mean honest and accurate in that is paints the dark picture of our healthcare future. Check it out.
The point of the video is not to be haunting but rather motivational. I walked away from it thinking… if we do not start to consider our personal healthcare decisions (at the very least) we are allowing healthcare to control our country’s economic path and future. [Scary thought.]
On top of the video, SHOUTAmerica has a lot to offer. Community, awareness, action, education. In the first blog post Times are Changing, So Should Healthcare the author says “My interest in our cause runs especially deep… Upon my graduation from a top 20 university, I found myself too old to remain under the insurance of my parents and too easy to ignore the gravity of not having it… I have come across countless stories detailing the difficulties healthcare expenses bring to bear on millions of Americans and their families. But while it is important to sympathize with their plight, we must now also turn our focus to action… The long-term interest of this country is dependent upon comprehensive healthcare reform that has remained elusive now for decades, usually dying on the table on Capitol Hill.”
The more we can share and spread this type of sentiment, the sooner we will see change. Unfortunately, this type of passion (displayed above) is not wide spread or at least those that feel this passionately have yet to unite.
To those that feel passionately about healthcare reform - Get involved! I think that SHOUTAmerica will provide the much needed platform for unity.
Out of Tragedy, a Commitment to Change Healthcare is Born
When both of Christopher Parks' parents passed away within a year of each other in 2006, he was left with more than just grief.
