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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (2347)10/26/2007 12:47:34 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
I suspect they would be less than 1/10 of 1% of all medical care. But I could be wrong.

No doubt. The only reason for looking at this issue is to see the circumstances under which people opt for one system or another. We can reasonably conclude that other systems are cheaper, in general, and ours is more attentive, in general. Beyond that, I don't see the value in developing expertise.

The lesson from that is that we should be able to find at least some cost savings. And the question raised is do we want to risk attentiveness to do so.

I suspect they would be less than 1/10 of 1% of all medical care. But I could be wrong.

It would be hard to imagine scenarios where Americans with the resources to travel abroad would opt to do so for something for which their Medicare or Blue Cross would pay. Maybe for something expensive enough that the 20% copay is unaffordable. Or something relatively simple in a place they want to visit anyway. Or where they have family. Seems to me we're talking tiny percentages here, too. It may be a failure of my imagination, of course, but imagining the range of possibilities usually works pretty well for me.

Unless we can identify legitimate categories of needs that are being met abroad but not at home, the question is pretty useless.
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