In message <[log in to unmask]> Dr David J Plews writes:
>At 17:13 05/09/1996 +0100, somebody wrote:
>
>>Anyway, my idea is to make every citizen a fundholder.
>>Allocate so much a year to each person
>Sorry John Spiers, formerly Chairman of Brighton NHS Trust and now Chairman
>of the Patient's Association thought of this first. He calls it Patient
>Fundholding.
>I think it's a great idea. 600-700UKp per patient. They would have to stop
>coming to see us to save up for their CABG, etc:-)
>
No he didn't. The idea of 'medical savings accounts' or MSAs has been
pitched in the USA for years now, though there the preferred
government hand-out is tax relief rather than direct cash credit or
voucher. Rather like a private pension fund. MSAs were included in
the recent health insurance reform bill and are supported by young,
professional and healthy Republican voters who can't believe they'll
ever be old and sick. Of course, if they ever do, they'll join
Medicare, assuming it's still going.
--
Pete Mitchell, Editor, e-Med News
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