On Thursday 07 December 2006 11:43, Greg Twyford wrote: > Moreover, will 'real' secure messaging ever get off the ground if this > trend grows, followed by the inevitable backlash resulting in even more > unrealistic hoops to jump through?
It goes like this: 1.) voters WANT a public health system with minimal out-of-pocket expenses 2.) doctors HATE bureaucracy, red tape and paperwork 3.) if the public health system inundates doctors with paper crap (as the current system does) or forces them to dance a jig every time they want to use the public health facilities to the patient's benefit -> doctors will either go increasingly private, or they will vote with teir feet - plenty of ocuntries with good living standards crying out for well trained doctors around the globe. 4.) Ultimately, society can live well without bureaucrats (just go to Norway and see it for yourself how well indeed society can live with an absolute minimum of bureaucrats and papaer work) - but will do rather poorly without medical services. ventually voters will wake up and decide - IF ONLY WE INFORM THEM OF THESE CHOICES! Now there is a role for the AMA. Instead of lobbying useless politicians (where they can hope for short lived foul compromises at best as recent history teaches us) they should lobby the general (voting) population into action - via the media. Relentless educational campaign, throwing everything we have at it. Results might take a bit longer that way, but as opposed to lobbying politicians you will get the desired results eventually - guaranteed. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
