If this were universally adopted in the US, HC costs would start dropping because it would shine a bright light on waste and malpractice -- and would enable the government to focus on it's proper role (not as a payer) but as the enforcer of the contract between the patient and the doctor.

One can imagine a scenario where physicians who prescribe a sub-optimal treatment route, e.g. oral antidiabetic agents (OAD) to patients with Type II diabetes who SHOULD be simply changing their diet/exercise habits could even be targeted by fines. This is nothing more than enforcing the patient/physician contract and pushing medical professionalism.

Cases where patients ignore medical advice would also be easy to spot -- they could get an OAD, but they have to pay for it themselves since diet and exercise is the preferred medical treatment. And it would be at their risk since an insurer might refuse them insurance or raise the premium if the patient was in the habit of refusing the scientifically most effective treatment.

So I can post in little small chunks all the text of the message I wanted to post -- but not the message as a whole!

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There is one technological advance that would go a long way to reducing helathcare costs in the US (and which is available in many European countries -- so may be acting to lower their costs even in the face of government fiddling):

Posting from Google Chrome

edit: so IE8 and Chrome have the same problem

Originally posted by trev33
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There is one technological advance that would go a long way to reducing helathcare costs in the US (and which is available in many European countries -- so may be acting to lower their costs even in the face of government fiddling):

the Electronic Healthcare Record

OK...so I have no problem posting small amounts of text in this thread, but large amounts won't go through as a post.

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I can go back and edit previous messages -- posting a large swath of text doesn't work, but a small amount does.

Maybe the Almighty is telling me, "Be brief!"

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There is one technological advance that would go a long way to reducing helathcare costs in the US (and which is available in many European countries -- so may be acting to lower their costs even in the face of government fiddling):

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There is one technological advance that would go a long way to reducing helathcare costs in the US (and which is available in many European countries -- so may be acting to lower their costs even in the face of government fiddling):
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There is one technological advance that would go a long way to reducing helathcare costs in the US (and which is available in many European countries -- so may be acting to lower their costs even in the face of government fiddling):
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There is one technological advance that would go a long way to reducing helathcare costs in the US (and which is available in many European countries -- so may be acting to lower their costs even in the face of government fiddling):
testing...

There is one technological advance that would go a long way to reducing helathcare costs in the US (and which is available in many European countries -- so may be acting to lower their costs even in the face of government fiddling):
testing...

There is one technological advance that would go a long way to reducing helathcare costs in the US (and which is available in many European countries -- so may be acting to lower their costs even in the face of government fiddling):