In addition I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.

However many skilled medical volunteers are turned away because community health centers cannot afford to cover their additional medical liability insurance.

America's doctors nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world but our health care system is broken.

Community health centers do a great deal with limited resources. They provide critical medical care services to many who would otherwise have no other place to go or would end up in an emergency room.

The World Health Organisation has a lot of its medical experts sitting in Geneva while hospitals in Africa have no drugs and desperate patients are forced to seek medication on the black market.

Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling stolen generations issues family relationships violence suicide prevention.

Advances in science and medical research and public health policies have meant that life expectancy for Australians is one of the highest in the world.

Here in Silicon Valley I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often innovators with good safe jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.

I basically believe the medical insurance industry should be nonprofit not profit-making. There is no way a health reform plan will work when it is implemented by an industry that seeks to return money to shareholders instead of using that money to provide health care.

Medical professionals not insurance company bureaucrats should be making health care decisions.