Jeffrey Brandt appears in New York’s Times Square. Photograph courtesy of Ability Prosthetics & Orthotics.
Jeffrey Brandt, CPO, founder and CEO of Ability Prosthetics & Orthotics, Gettysburg, Pennyslvania, appeared live on a Fox Business News “Money for Breakfast” segment on August 14.
Brandt appeared with U.S. Representative Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), who is a member of the house financial services committee, as well as Shirley Green, an under-insured Coloradan who is struggling to pay for her recent emergency surgery. All three spoke on issues related to the current federal healthcare-reform efforts.
When asked what he believed was needed to reform healthcare, Brandt commented that he believed that the reform process would be better served if the debate period was extended to allow more people and issues to come to the table. He also said, “As a consumer of healthcare, as a provider of healthcare, and as an employer who offers healthcare to 15 employees…the thing that I see on a daily basis is that what we need to provide in this reform-in this health insurance reform, not healthcare reform-is…to put the insurance back in insurance, we need to give the employees control of their healthcare dollars, and we need to help people to understand…how insurance companies operate…. Forgive me, but I don’t think the general public really understands their insurance claim or their explanation of benefits that they receive in the mail after a claim has been submitted.”
Brandt called the taping “a great experience,” and, according to Ability, was later asked by Fox to provide an additional interview. “On the later segment, which aired over the weekend,” he said, “I got the opportunity to talk about the importance of the federal parity and Medicare Improvement bills. Any time there is an opportunity to speak about the orthotics and prosthetics profession on national television, it is an opportunity to advance our industry.”
