Medicare/Veterans Administration Health Care for All
I wish to elaborate upon the scope and means of conducting the project described in the posting entitled: "Grassroots Education, Hidden Costs, and Health Care." The scope essentially is that the American health care system is broken and needs to be fixed. The hypothesis is that there are already models in this country (VA (socialized medicine) and Medicare (single payer medicine)) that excel at providing good quality care, appropriate care, and access to care, while keeping overhead/administrative costs in control. The idea is that Americans can get a lot more for current levels of spending, and that the acceleration of costs can be curbed through the expansion of eligibility to the VA or Medicare to any human being living in the US. It follows that, should data support this hypothesis/idea, that a media campaign to educate voters and advocate for legislative change would, if successful, correct a lot of what is wrong in this country. I can hardly think of a more ...