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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: i-node who wrote (6855)6/1/2009 7:44:14 PM
From: skinowski  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Perhaps, Medicare could encourage savings if they share them with the beneficiaries. Let's say, the funding in a given community is $700 per person per month. Every month when they do not make charges to the system in excess of the funding, give them 5 or 10% of the balance as direct payment. That might work.

I've been watching for some years now with interest the "concierge" arrangements. Patients pay the doctors an annual retainer - anywhere from several hundred to several thousands dollars each year - for extra access and attention. In some cases Docs will accompany the patient on visits to specialists. Good for them! If they can afford it, why shouldn't they have it? Glad to see that so far the egalitarians have left these arrangements alone.

I like the idea of cheap clinics. Almost anything is cheap in comparison to a visit to an emergency room.

Hospitals are insanely expensive. This will remain so for as long as they will have to keep up with an avalanche of regulations and controls.
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