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.
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Living with NO insurance, I can tell you, there is no greater fear than the fear that your children will get ill . . . or that you will get ill and they will have no one to care for them.
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