Beg to differ! The attached article by Charles Krauthammer makes abundent sense and is a practicle approach. The only thing I would add to Krauthammer's recommendations is to implement some from of electronic medical records to reduce the long term records cost and ease the access to critical medical records as needed. Of course, the cost to implement a universal electronic medical records system is substantial.

See Krauthammer's article at http://www.redding.com/news/2009/aug...s/?partner=RSS.