Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Effective health care delivery

-- Effective health care delivery --

* Basic treatments for all. Better coverage is paid by individual. We encourage folks to work hard and there is no more free lunch. The government can spend an agreed % of GNP on public health care.

* Prevention: voluntary and non-voluntary (via taxes) on smoking, fast food...

* Limit lawsuit award on malpractice.

* State-of-the-art treatments are less effective than prevention such as a low-dosage aspirin for all over 50 years of age.

* Outsourcing expensive treatments to foreign countries and drug development/clinical tests.

* Cut down expensive drug marketing (like giving money/goodies to doctors).

* Stop illegals and foreigners from using our medical systems free.

Import foreign doctors and nurses is the worst we can do to a poor country.

Before we send soldiers abroad or explore space, should we solve our home problems such as health care first?

1 comment:

  1. We can learn from EU why their health care is better and far cheaper than us. Copy cat is OK if we do it right.

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