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

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (8632)	8/24/2009 10:39:08 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I think that more insurance products with portability are the key, too. We'd also have to do something, I think, to require policies to be more intelligible so that people know what they're buying, use one of a variety of mechanisms to prevent them from being canceled just when the policy holder gets sick, and, if competition still doesn't offer policies cheap enough for everyone, tinker with the eligibility for Medicaid or some product like it. There are a few other smaller things that could be done such as more medical school slots and perhaps more opportunities to get subsidized training costs so that we produce more doctors. And physician assistants. And more automation of tests and records, common coding schemes, and the like. Some micro initiatives like, for example, directories of services. I recently had need for an urgent-care clinic, at least I thought I did. The internet sent me to two disparate places (in rush hour traffic) that weren't there anymore. I finally found one where I vaguely remembered seeing it. That shouldn't have been so hard. There are probably lots of micro initiatives that would be helpful. Perhaps a clearing house of initiatives that could be taken on pro bono. There are lots of companies that could undertake to maintain a directory of urgent care clinics in the public interest.