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

To: Lane3 who wrote (6234)	3/3/2009 4:19:28 PM
From: Mary Cluney	Respond to of 42652

<<<you're ignoring costs. Sure, sometimes it would save a life. How many lives? How much should we pay for each life saved? I realize that cost/benefit is irrelevant to true believers, but I still feel obligated to mention it. >>> I agree that it is difficult to quantify the cost of saving a life because of misfiled doctor's notes. Saving a life is only one of the benefits of having doctors learn how to use a computer so they can enter information directly into a computer rather than on a pieice of paper <<<you can easily over-simplify to the point of dismissal.>>> Or I can easily keep it simple and get to the truth. <<<I will be gone from the face of this earth before they could build the system you envision. >>> Me too. But it isn't about us or is it?