SEEKING THE PUBLIC OPTION
Surprise!
Suppose—that Medical Centers dedicated
to Primary Care medicine were established in Communities all over the
That
these Centers could be funded by federal grant on application from individual communities
That these
centers would be staffed by salaried specialists in Pediatrics, Primary Care (trained as family doctors and
to some extent general practitioners),
Internal Medicine, Gynecology and Dentistry.
That
these Centers have been approved by the Congress and no further Congressional
approval be needed.
That
these Centers would earn money to defray the cost of management by charging
whatever the traffic would bear, to include Private Insurance, Medicare,
Medicaid, Cash and No Fee for the medically indigent.
That
the deployment of these Centers the land over would ASSURE every American the
availability of Primary Care Medicine 24 hours a day and reduce the load on
Emergency Rooms for band-aid problems.
That
these Centers would remove such a financial load from the shoulders of
business, and industry that business and enterprise would scramble to promote
and help fund them.
That
individuals and families would pay less for High Tech medicine in or out of the
hospital.
That
the Centers would be electronically connected to allow surveillance by the
Primary Physician of the progress of patients that had been referred, and thus
informed have the option of getting a second opinion.
That
Hospitalization, High Tech Medicine, complex parenteral and intravenous
therapies, Surgery, Imaging, Dialysis remain in the private sector.
This program would provide a Medical
System comprised of two sectors, Private Insurance on the one hand and
Government Funded on the other, Public and private Side by Side.
The public sector assures Primary Care
and thus individuals have the option of adding Private Insurance if so desired.
It gives patients access to Primary
Care Medicine in any Center in the country and protects travelers.
Isn’t this better than forcing
Americans to buy insurance?
Would YOU vote to have this system
promoted and put in place?
SUPPRISE!
You don’t have to vote for or against
it. The system EXISTS and is in place. 8000 of these Primary Care Centers are
scattered throughout the county. We simply need more of them. Growing the existing system would salvage the
troubled “Health Care” system as we know it.