Responding to The Associated Press story "No health insurance for 886,000 in Louisiana, 618,000 in Mississippi," reader emersoncrooknewman commented: Daniel Erath, The Times-Picayune archiveSecond-year medical school students were photographed during the white coat ceremony fpr the LSU Health Sciences Center School of Medicine on July 30. "What we are talking about medical care not healthcare, most people seek medical...
Responding to The Associated Press story "No health insurance for 886,000 in Louisiana, 618,000 in Mississippi," reader emersoncrooknewman commented:
Second-year medical school students were photographed during the white coat ceremony fpr the LSU Health Sciences Center School of Medicine on July 30. "What we are talking about medical care not healthcare, most people seek medical care when they are sick, healthcare would required some consideration of independent efforts to control weight, exercise, stop smoking, drink alcoholic beverage moderately, and so on. Many people seek lifesupport medications to control their blood pressure and cholesterol when exercise and weight control could do much to reduce those costs. Somebody, somewhere, somehow needs to get into a discussion about to control the cost of medical care and not just who is going to pay for the insurance. Maybe there should be an attempt to identify where the money goes and how to reduce the costs. Insurance of whatever nature just spreads the cost around and the cost is rising rapidly."
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