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Originally Posted by EEinNJ
I think anyone who is against health care insurance reform is either ignorant, selfish, or a right-wing idealogue.
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I'm not sure anyone is arguing against reform, but reform can take many different shapes. It does not have to mean switching to a single-payer, government-run national plan. There are numerous examples right now, operating very successfully today, of system reform. I've mentioned the Mayo Clinic. There is also excellent work being done in one area in Colorado (sorry, I don't remember what town). The methods and technology to cut costs dramatically already exist. They just aren't being widely used.
Under these systems, doctors still earn just as much if not more, hospitals make more more by reducing waste and write-off charges, and most importantly, patients get a higher quality of care with better outcomes at a lower cost. We just need to figure out how to implement these paradigm-shifting methods on a larger scale.