Revamping our Health Care

Can our health care system be revamped, reworked and renewed to include all US citizens?

I have been following a number of articles about this issue starting way back in the Clinton era when Ms Clinton tried to come up with something.

My first thought was, shouldn't the health care providers first get on the 'same page' about what is considered BASIC CARE?

On the outset, a child born in the USA should begin having regular preventive health care included dental. If we have a healthy youth then it should follow that we would have healthier adults.

In Forbes I read about MEDITECH being used to make hospitals more efficient and create less duplicate work within the hospital medical system. Doctors in all departments would have complete access to a patient's history and current medication lists, test and their results and any other doctors or departments with which the patient has been involved. This system is widely used in larger university medical communities such as the one I am currently familiar, Heidelberg University.

Is this the best place to begin for any medical system? To have a system of sharing patient history could cut the very costs that are choking our health care now.

I continue to monitor these issues. After all, if the USA is to make the claim "the greatest nation on Earth" then it had better get rid of this fear of the word 'social' and know that our society (a word dirived from scocial) must be cared for in many ways through either government sponsored programs or greater oportunities for everyone to obtain 'the American Dream' (and that is a very subjective item).

More to come on this.

Blogging = twittering?

Big noise over the internet about this Twitter stuff. Just another way to keep everyone glued to their internet connection? Twitter about nonsense. Twitter about your own coolness. Twitter about your pain. Twitter about twittering.

I am sure the mobile communications industry is pushing all this too cause then you MUST have the full service and of COURSE you're gonna need that new, latest and greatest cell phone 'blackberry' or 'iphone' clone, right? Big bucks babe. It's all about spending more than you earn on 'stuff'!

The 'STUFF' industry is suffering right now, peps. You, the consumer public are just not digging down deep in your pockets to get those teckie goodies. Get out the old plastic and get all that "STUFF" anyway, even if your job is shaky and you have lost some of your nest-egg with the global slow-down of stocks, 401k's money markets, etc.

Make your life more ultra light. Have only the things that are really necessary to achieve an enjoyable life but don't set that 'bar' of what is enjoyable, too high.

So, there it is, my own Twitter of the day.

Maybe I should make this blog into my own little Twitter page! LOL!

The truth sometimes hurts

Philip Larkin - This Be The Verse

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
 They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
 And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn
 By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern
 And half at one another's throats.

Man hands on misery to man.
 It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can,
 And don't have any kids yourself.