Universal Health Coverage - How to Do It
January 16, 2007
Forty-five million Americans don't have health insurance. Millions more have inadequate coverage. It's not a government's obligation to provide health care, but the U.S. is probably rich enough to afford doing it in some basic way.
Here's my plan:
- First, prevention should be the priority, because it is the most effective and the cheapest type of health care.
- Next, natural remedies should be promoted, because they are inexpensive and sometimes work.
- Third, we must get rid of the archaic doctor-based system at hospitals and let nurses and others with less education but more technical experience do more of the treatments.
- Fourth, we must not think we have to cure everybody just because a cure is available. If some cures are very expensive, let them be expensive. Set up privately funded charities where wealthy people can contribute individually to specific cases.
posted by M. Masterson @ 9:44 AM,
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