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To: Ilaine who wrote (76674)	10/11/2004 6:19:53 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793801

Software is the answer. There are enormous inefficiencies in the lack of automation. It's a scandal, really. But proposals out there get a lot of flak about privacy. Lotsa opportunities to cut costs if we could get past that. It's called Medicare. I'm assuming you meant Medicaid. Medicaid works just fine as a catastrophic coverage proxy for the individual. You don't pay into it but you get to take out of it. What a deal! What I had in mind was catastrophic coverage insurance that you actually paid for. <g> Which would be self sustaining and didn't require anything from the taxpayers. Catastrophic coverage couldn't cost very much, just like life insurance doesn't cost much when the insured is a young person. Shouldn't cost more than a few hundred a year. Sort of like homeowners' insurance. Any self-respecting free-loader could be induced. Using Medicaid that way is a scandal, too.