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To: Sam who wrote (89016)	10/7/2008 3:46:33 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 542059

It would be nice to see some low cost clinics set up throughout the country for exactly that purpose I agree. It's great that urgent care clinics are popping up. I hadn't thought of using clinics specifically for prevention but I like the idea. (Re the A1c, though, I think it's derelict to not treat metabolic syndrome as a disease with an intervention for elevated blood glucose. I don't think that, at that point in the disease development, it's prevention any longer but disease, just a milder version.)

To: Sam who wrote (89016)	10/7/2008 3:58:55 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 542059

<<<One of the huge holes in our medical system is that preventive care is at best marginalized. >>> Our medical system is a patchwork system. It can't possibly be efficient. It is unrealistic that we can fix it overnight or in any short period of time. The only way we can fix it is if we agree on a vision and then work toward achieving that vision. The first thing we have to agree on is if we want a privatised system or one where health care (and education) is a birthright and that we spend a certain percentage of our budget providing health care to every single person from cradle to grave. In time our expenditure on health care would be as important to us as our budget for national defence. There is no way that a privatized health care system can work. There is no example anywhere in the world of a privatized health care system that works. There are many models of cradle to grave health care systems that work without having to resort to socialism. And we can improve on those models.