[Oe List ...] Health Care For All

[R Williams]

Sounds a bit like a case for states rights, but I fear when left up to each state to decide for itself equality would not be the product.
 
Randy

--- On Wed, 9/2/09, Jack Gilles <icabombay at igc.org> wrote:


From: Jack Gilles <icabombay at igc.org>
Subject: [Oe List ...] Health Care For All
To: "Order Ecumenical Community" <oe at wedgeblade.net>
Date: Wednesday, September 2, 2009, 10:45 AM


Dear Colleagues,

I can't say I agree with Susan's arguments, but there are points we need to consider.  As I remember our geo-social analysis on polity, we said the future of the nation state was passing away.  We would emerge with a Regionalis dynamic in which the interactions of the Area (based on 54 major metro centers), Regions (the key dynamic) and Metros would be the basis of the new Polity.  There are many indicators that show this analysis is on target and many things seem to be moving in that direction.

So my question is, is it realistic to think a country of 300 million can manage a common health system that does justice to both our diversity and accessibility?  I know there are lots of fast computers that can crunch vast amounts of data and information, but I doubt that anything that massive could really work like we would like it to.  Great Britain's system is constantly being challenged as too big, and other countries who offer national coverage are smaller than ours, usually about the size of what we said was an Area.  I am all for universal coverage, but wonder if it can, and should, be designed on such a massive scale.

Jack

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