Re: France is healthcare leader, US comes dead last: study --> was R

[Guest guest]

Hello all,

I apologize for my delay in replying to this thread, but I

just wanted to encourage all of you who are interested in improving the way our

“health care system” (in quotes because as we all know, it’s

not so successful at actually achieving health for the vast majority of

Americans) to take a look at the Physicians Proposal for National Health

Insurance put forth by Physicians for a National Health Program (http://www.pnhp.org). This is not socialized

medicine, but a single-payer system that aims to vastly reduce the

administrative overhead currently wasted in our current system with multiple

for-profit insurers. Essentially, when you take a look at the numbers, we

(private individuals, federal & state governments, and employers) are

already paying for universal care; we’re just not getting it.

In any case, it’s certainly not the only answer to our

broken health care system (doesn’t directly address the underfunding of

primary care, or the vast amount of debt with which the typical medical student

graduates, for example), but it’s an interesting start.

Take care,

-emily

Queenan, MD

Chief Resident, Department of Family

Medicine

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