Thursday, May 7, 2009

Rationing Health Care

The battle is heating up over Obama's plan to nationalize health care even though the US health care system is known throughout the world as the best, and those countries, with socialized medicine, show significant waiting lists for "elective" surgery and rationing of care to senior citizens.

The costs of our current system are great and some reform is needed. Unnecessary tests needed to stave off potential lawsuits could be eliminated. Government regulations that require years and millions of dollars for testing of drugs could be amended to cut back on the needless "red tape" . Local hospitals do not need all the latest multi-million dollar innovative pieces of equipment, just to satisfy the egos of the doctors on the boards. Regional centers, with all the latest gadgets, could be used for this purpose.

The following article is a good summary of the direction this debate is taking. The Coming of Zero Care

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