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Thinking Outside the Box on Healthcare


Edward Miller


Embrace Unity

September 14, 2009

The healthcare debate is shockingly narrow. We have the do nothing crowd, the privatize it more crowd, the single-payer people, and the public option folks. On the more radical end of the mainstream debates are those calling for more general practitioners, preventive care/incentives, and co-ops. Of the bills pushing through congress now, I have a feeling the public option is the only one with any teeth, but there are a million other non-mutually-exclusive ideas which could be implemented.


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Posted by skin tag string  on  09/15  at  12:06 AM

A thought provoking article, Edward! Instead of human hand, replacing automated systems and robots to assist care-providers is really different idea !!





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