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Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:00 AM

Healthcare needs you

Ask not what healthcare can do for you but what you can do, with incentives, for healthcare.
By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D.

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  • Thursday, June 19, 2008 05:54 AM

    So you're saying we should only cover people who don't need it?

    As a group, the largest consumers of health care dollars are women of child bearing age. Cutting them out of the system for their 'life style choices' seems reasonable to me. Moreover, on a patient by patient basis most health care is consumed in the last year or last stages of life, which of course being the last year of life, always ends in death. We should cut them out too.

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