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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (2355)	10/27/2007 10:23:13 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"When you combine these two savings - the paperwork shuffling reduction and the medical malpractice lawsuits - and you get an incredible deal for your dollar. " Indeed. "I say you can't stop the free market. When people find out about medical tourism, they're going to get information on the internet, make informed decisions, go overseas and get high-quality care at a fraction of the price they'd be paying in the United States. And they're going to come back and tell lots of people. " Ditto. But so what? "That's the story on medical tourism, and it's yet another demonstration of the deterioration of the U.S. healthcare system and the failure of organized medicine." That conclusion is not supported in the text. All that is supported is that US health care is a poor value compared with that of medical tourist destinations and that matters in some situations. I referred to those situations myself yesterday. Gastric bypass, for example, isn't always covered by medical insurance so it makes sense to go elsewhere for it. I would certainly consider doing so were I to have that surgery. I'm no dummy. This piece supports my argument more than yours. We need to fix the system by bringing down costs. How do we do that? The author mentions several cost areas. I say, go after them. He doesn't even hint that your solution, government-provided, universal health care is the answer. At least I can't divine it.