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OUR CLIENTS: St.
Luke's Health Initiatives
The Coming of Age in Arizona, 2003
Health Care Coverage for
All Arizonans, 2006
The Coming of Age in Arizona
St. Luke's Health Initiatives hired Viewpoint Learning to conduct research into
public understanding of the looming care deficit posed by Arizona‘s rapidly
aging population. Viewpoint Learning conducted ChoiceDialogues that explored
a specific range of possible changes in the roles of government, communities
and the private sector to enable Arizona to meet the challenge.
Through the ChoiceDialogues, participants reached four interlocking conclusions:
- The status quo – a hodge-podge of programs, services and inadequate
infrastructure – is not acceptable
- An unregulated market will not protect seniors' interests
- Arizona's communities contain a wealth of potential
- Government must play a key role in any long-term solution, even if that requires increased taxes
The ChoiceDialogues revealed a surprising level of support for moving toward
some form of universal health coverage, even though that option had not been
raised in the pre-dialogue materials. Results from these dialogues were incorporated
into St. Luke's collaboration with the Governor's office on aging issues and
also helped to launch a series of local aging-related projects convened by Arizona‘s
Community Colleges.
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Health Care Coverage for All Arizonans
In 2005, St. Luke‘s again funded Viewpoint Learning, this time to examine Arizonans‘ repsonses
to a range of approaches for creating statewide universal healthcare coverage.
During the ChoiceDialogues, participants made significant shifts away from an
expanded, employer-based, healthcare system and towards a more limited, but
universal, public system in which every Arizonan receives some healthcare and
protection against medical bankruptcy through a statewide program.
In a followup Stakeholder Dialogue key leaders in healthcare and state government
worked together with a small group of citizens from the ChoiceDialogues to refine
the citizens‘ description of a universal healthcare system. They were also able
to identify critical, high-leverage steps that would help the state move towards
that system and address some of the most pressing concerns facing Arizona's healthcare
system today, including nursing shortages, lack of teaching hospitals, efficiency
and consistency of care and more. The report and its powerful findings along
with the collaborative engagement of key stakeholders in the process, will help
St. Luke's efforts to improve access to healthcare for all Arizonans.
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