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And health care was not intended to be an industry. Non profit health coverage was started so the poor to middle class could receive the quality of health care that was affordable to the wealthy. It is time to quit wasting monies on advertising and creating an industry and to put these resources back into caring for others so they also can have affordable and quality health care. Most state programs offer coverage but not quality! Our children and our fellow citizens are one of our greatest resources for our future. It is time to change our thoughts on health care and develop and create other industries for capital gain. There are other avenues for insurance coverage but lets think about the impact of quality health care in our nation and making it available to all.

The US spends more per person than almost every other nation. I don’t believe there should be concern about advertising from private organizations. The more pertinent issue is the wasteful spending and a lack of focus on the part of the government. Millions are being spent to try and create standards for medical record data. Personal Health Records need these standards in order to become viable. The inaccurate assumption is that all medical systems must incorporate these standards in order to make PHRs a reality.

There are less expensive and relatively simple ways to achieve some of the goals mentioned above. Scott uses the analogy of putting a man on the moon and what can be achieved over a decade of effort with billions of dollars of taxpayer money. I would use a more down to Earth analogy of the United Nations. Everyone does not speak the same language so translators are used to communicate information cheaply and quickly among all of the representatives, at least more cheaply than requiring everyone to speak English.

This is the direction the EMRy Stick PHR has taken. The EMRy Stick works in conjunction with a universal translator that is capable of exporting and import information from any computer system. All other personal health record products have complex, expensive, bloated approaches because they are designed by very intelligent people who find it difficult to look at simple solutions.

That’s my 2 cents.

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