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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans; Jim Robinson; All

Perhaps you would like this idea for one way to lower costs not a part of Obamacare, and reducing expensive Emergency Room care.

There are new ways of doing basic diagnostics for most common ills that can be done by Skype, phone, email, etc. It would be so much cheaper for governments (preferably local and state) to set up small clearance offices in poorer or spread out rural areas where people could go for a basic consultation and preliminary diagnosis. Decisions could then be made as to whether to go to an ER, to wait and see if the problem clears up, recommend an over the counter item like aspirin with instructions, or do minor treatment like cleaning and bandaging a small cut or abrasion, etc.


175 posted on 02/19/2016 4:30:54 PM PST by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin

That’s really smart! I’ll remember that for the future, and you should email it to your senator one of these days.


177 posted on 02/19/2016 4:31:56 PM PST by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: gleeaikin

Those are great ideas.


180 posted on 02/19/2016 4:33:13 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: gleeaikin

Sounds feasible.


181 posted on 02/19/2016 4:37:56 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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