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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (500322)8/2/2009 10:45:10 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1578138
 
Al, > What kind of inefficiencies are do you know of specifically and what are you looking for?

I've followed what happened to King-Drew Medical Center in South L.A., particularly because my wife once worked there and got caught up in the B.S. politics. They consistently failed to shape up their own shop, which led to poor patient care and even plenty of unnecessary deaths.

The reason for keeping them open is the same reasons why universal health care is being pushed through. Better to have something than nothing. In the end, it didn't matter. King-Drew (now King-Harbor) was forced to shut down, but that was an awfully painful process.

I see the problems of King-Drew being multiplied on a federal scale once universal health care is implemented. It doesn't have to be, but without solving the current problems with publicly administered services, from education to Medicare, we're going to see things get worse before they get better.

And I haven't even talked about Big Pharma (who's going to win big with Obamacare) and the FDA (whose problems are going to be magnified as demand for health care increases). I trust that Medicare has lots of success stories like what happened to your father-in-law, so maybe being forced to confront these problems is a good thing. All I'm saying, though, is that one way or another, we will be.

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