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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (498354)	7/27/2009 11:32:49 AM
From: Alighieri	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578054

I suspect that everything that contributed to the three-inch-thick folder is a complex tale of "cover your ass" medicine, doctors who neither have the bandwidth nor the freedom to diagnose properly, and utter bureaucracy. I could be wrong, but that sort of stuff is all too common. The point of the story is that there is NO coordination of care in the PRIVATE sector...and our care is all private. The only thing that actually worked well was Medicare...they controlled costs, they knew exactly what had been provided to my relative in FL and that service would not be double covered in AL (O2 concentrator, wheel chair, walker, meds, etc...) ... the folder of crumpled paper is because the record keeping is not centralized, nor mandated in any standard form. Coordination of information, consults between doctors, none of that is required and therefore not done. It's pathetic... The reason why I'm cynical when it comes to universal health care is because it's being sold as a panacea to all of these problems and more. I could take the optimist viewpoint and say that as long as universal health care is inevitable, we might as well stay one step ahead of the curve and push for real solutions while we have the chance. But I think before we get to the promised land, we'll need to spend years in the desert figuring all of this stuff out.. No one I know expects it to be a panacea, nor does anyone I know have any illusion about the complexity of the problem. But what we have today is really a mess... Al