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

To: Road Walker who wrote (6884)	6/5/2009 10:52:17 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

>> Any other ideas for a drastic cut in cost? Sure. Let people die younger. Stop treating people who get sick with cancer and heart disease; they aren't going to make it anyway. I believe we should eliminate the expensive research that goes into creating new drugs and pie-in-the-sky equipment like MRI and CT and 3-D Ultrasound. And I don't think we need to be over-training everyone from physicians to x-ray technicians. There is no reason you can't take some of these out-of-work Chrysler mechanics and put them to work in hospitals. It cannot be that different, working on a car versus working versus on an x-ray machine. We just need to stop all this wasteful spending.

To: Road Walker who wrote (6884)	6/5/2009 6:24:11 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

The only thing I see working is the proven Euro model. They pay less, but they have lower doctor income (which may be hard to put in place here), lower malpractice suit/insurance costs (which isn't really part of their medical matter, but rather another issue, and not a simple one that can be easily resolved), drug cost subsidized by American consumers funding much of the R&D costs (not really part of their insurance model), marginally less problem with obesity, and many other differences that just imposing their insurance model wouldn't change for the US.