Health Care and Being Lazy

Robert H. Frank advocates the Single-Payer venue for Health Care. He basically covers all the Issues involved: achieving universal coverage, cutting down on administrative costs, ending Private Insurer evasion of unhealthy people, and would actually cost less. He misses only on a statement that a Single-Payer system would bring nationwide Pricing for health care, a methodology to fund health care capitalization in distressed areas, and curtail Charges equal to ‘What the Market will bear’ in wealthier sections of the nation. A Single-Payer system would insist on uniform standards for use of generic Drugs instead of patented Drugs; a innate Savings estimated by myself to exceed over 20% of the current Drug Cost. Readers should understand that foreign countries have shown that Health Care can be much less costly, yet still be universal in Coverage.

This article discusses the impact of allowing Generic production of Drugs from living tissue without conducting all the trials and Lab tests of the original Patent-Holder. The Bill currently proposed in Congress would allow the FDA to determine and establish what experimentation must be done by the Generic Provider. What is the real danger here, and how do We avert such danger? The answer remains easy to implement: Simply change Patent law to insist on publication of all relevant data on production of any Product at the end of the Patent life, or the Patent beneficiary will be liable to remit all funds derived through the life of the Patent when and if convicted of violation of the Freedom of Information Act. Once again, immense Savings in Health Care Cost derives from a simple, enforceable Regulation of basic Business format structure.
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Personal Comment:

I personally value Feedback on my blog, when I receive any. It tells you if you have lost your audience, or asks you to explore an idea in greater depth. It is why the Blog format is such a vital and vibrant form of Communication. That said, the Reader request I have received desiring myself to chose the 25 most relevant Posts I have made in my estimation, with links to those Posts, I believe will be long in coming. Mayhaps I will feel more historical once I have arrived at 1000 Posts, but I would not advise holding your breath. The Readers’ choice of most moving Posts will always be the most paramount in any case. lgl