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Wed Dec 31 11:03:26 GMT 2008

Could you teach our "county" hospital how to do this?  We are so much in the red that we have now hired a consulting firm for 10.5 million dollars to get us 7 million out of debt.  How absurd is that?
Anne Bills, RN

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Subject: Fwd: [Med-Events] US Social Service Health Care- It has
happenedalready

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Sent: 12/30/2008 8:00:24 P.M. Central Standard  Time
Subj: [Med-Events] US Social Service Health Care- It has happened  already

Use whatever terms you wish:   Single payer, Universal Health,  Governmental 
Health Care, Public Health Service, etc.    

US SOCIAL SERVICE HEALTH CARE IS HERE, at least for 44 or more million  
people in the United States.   It works quite well and is very  standardized.   It 
happens in hospitals with names such as Bellvue,  Parkland, Ben Taub, Charity, 
LA County, SF General, and many  others.   In these "county" hospitals the 
common (often limited  number of payers) funding comes from the local and 
federal taxpayers, as  adverse selection does not happen.    The faculty and 
resident  salaries are standardized as are the working hours.   The procedures  and 
standards of practice are defined by the latest evidenced based scientific  
articles.   The quality is assured by the multiple checks and  balances.   Out of 
necessity, un necessary procedures are usually  not done and un necessary 
tests and images are not performed, just to satisfy  the industry driven mill of 
the hospital selling goods and services for the  profit of the stockholders.   

Kenneth Mattox 
Houston   

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