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

To: Lane3 who wrote (8540)	8/21/2009 12:33:51 PM
From: Archie Meeties	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 42652

Drunk driving crashes involving non alcoholics are in fact the ones most amenable to intervention. Those are the focus of the brief emergency room interventions referenced in the article. Those interventions have less effect on alcoholics. Has nothing to do with classifying alcohol dependence as a disease state. The general point is one that you have made before. Public health is at times at odds with private health. And in this country, such problems as smoking, drunk driving, obesity etc., need both public health and individual interventions. My arguement is that one of the shortcomings of our current system is that it doesn't compensate for these broad preventative measures. However, overall the system is geared for robust coverage for subspecialist, procedures, surgeries, and excellent coverage for specialities such as dermatology and opthamology. In second place is good routine primary care. Left in the dust is preventative care and public health. A good system imo would have those in reverse order. And would over time lead to reduced overall costs.