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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Lane3 who wrote (12624)12/24/2009 11:22:53 AM
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>> I appreciate the focus on getting health care coverage for those who don't have it.

I think there is a way to do it that would be cost effective. I'm reasonably sure this isn't it.

I just can't help but think had a step-wise approach been taken we would have been far better off. Develop an over all plan or strategy, then use smaller pieces of legislation to implement it on a piecemeal basis.

They would have had great support for beefing up measures to get control of Medicare/Medicaid fraud, overpayment and abuse. Get that implemented -- which would have been far easier, then attack the problem drug reimportation or DME costs or community clinics (it is odd that I find myself in total agreement with Bernie Sanders about the need for and value of community clinics; agreeing with that guy is a probably a once-in-a-lifetime event).

You have to have a master plan. But sometimes problems are just so big that tackling them head on is not very effective; sometimes it is better to chip away at the edges until you develop a clearer understanding of the issues and the problem becomes more manageable. These guys didn't do that; they went all-in at the outset and I can't believe we're going to get a good result out of it.
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