Single Payer Health Systems

before to long (some are being developed at Scripps Inst. in San Diego as I understand it). If this technology works out, a lot of the routine medical care like urine and blood tests, electrocardiograms, etc. will probably become cheaper and more accessible.

I am very optimistic about the ability of the medical profession to work more efficiently, handle more patients and provide better healthcare for less. People with certain conditions will be wearing monitors that will make a lot of hospital and medical visits and tests unnecessary.

On edit, these developments may make private corporate healthcare less profitable and lead to single payer.

Think of it, when I was a child, my grandmother had a cataract operation. She had to lie quite still for quite some time. I may be wrong because I was very young at the time, but I think she had to lie pretty still most of the time for a couple of weeks.

Nowadays, you walk in, get lenses in your eye and that same day go home. It doesn't take nearly so long for your eyes to completely heal. We are making so much progress when it comes to medicine. I'm not worried about the cost of healthcare that much.

Exercise and eat right. Those are the most important things we can do to lower healthcare costs in our countries.

Get out of the car and walk. I believe that one of the reasons Europeans have a longer life expectancy than we do is that they walk more. They have cars, but they also walk and use public transportation more than we do.