RE: The Dana Plan for peeling the layers of health reform
I believe in prevention as a way to deter or to identify earlier
conditions. The only way to provide it to everybody is through some
form of government way. There are plenty of examples in Europe of
systems that does work well. Germany, Great Britain and Denmark,
for instance... and they are officially controlled.
Surely they cost money to everybody, and ultimately, it's up to the
individual to chose between a super-sized junk food with a gallon
of soda sweetened with corn-syrup. Some people will still die from
self neglecting by ignoring wellness practices, but many more will
be able to benefit from a regular visit to a prime care office.
Some say we don't have enough doctors, even though they currently
make some serious money (nothing wrong with that...), but if we
decrease their exposure to being sued for frivolous reasons there
would be more of them. We always can schedule wisely, and have some
doctors working on Fridays again...
If we don't do this, most of our medicine will be practiced at the
Emergency rooms, and we all know how expensive that is.
Think about the IT market, for example. Ten years ago, we were
importing people from everywhere to code for Y2K. Surely, we off-
shored lots of those jobs and nowadays we have surplus of such
professionals...
Maybe we could start importing doctors as well... Bottom line is,
the saying that 4 of every 5 Americans have some sort of insurance
is not working.
