I look forward to a totally efficient and all-encompassing national health care. I dread the transition. I say start from the bottom up with a huge public health program..reinvent public health nurses who make home visits. Install a nurse here and there for all the problems they say clog up emergency rooms..routine things..contract maybe with Chex medical centers for non-urgent care. Have public health hospitals. As the kinks work out, expand this upwards. Have many incentives for people to go into public health nursing, doctoring, paramedcing etc. with free tuition or reduced repayment of loans etc. Train every trainable prisoner to provide some aspect of health care and let them know there will be jobs for them working with the unserved currently members of the populations..highly supervised and selected to make sure sex offenders and violent ones etc. are not providing care.

Maybe some care could be provided in minimum security prisons to the outside population..very carefully monitored and perhaps videotaped for additional security. And we need transitional housing and jobs for released prisoners and those on parole. No access to certain drugs of course...mg