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More from Reilly on health care

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MaverickDem posted about this already, but I’ll just cut and paste a little more from Reilly’s press release on health care. This is a good effort, and includes some ideas we’ve talked about on these very pages, er, bits: emphasis on prevention; bulk-purchasing of prescription drugs and reimportation from Canada; more information in the marketplace; use of technology to make record-keeping more efficient (which apparently is a shockingly large inefficiency in health care).

Fighting for affordable, higher quality care by:

  • Replacing handwritten methods of ordering prescription drugs and lab tests with more efficient computerized systems
  • Adopting electronic health records so that all of a patient’s doctors can access his/her medical history
  • Using culturally competent community-based care coordinators to help patients manage chronic conditions, focus on preventive care, and avoid expensive emergency room visits

    • Making prescription drugs safe and more affordable by:

  • Establishing a statewide program for the safe re-importation of drugs from Canada
  • Joining with other states in bulk purchasing coalitions to negotiate lower prescription drug prices

    • It goes on, and the pdf they sent out is more comprehensive (hey Reilly folks, where’s the link on your site?). There are a lot of good things in there. The implementation of the personal mandate is referred to, but not with any detail; hard to blame him for that at this point. In any event, well done to Reilly for getting specific.

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    1. I do hope that the first two bullets (involving computing) also require sufficient security to protect my medical records from id thieves and pharmacutical companies.

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      My Viagra perscription shouldn’t result in me receiving more advertisements for Cialis, so to speak.

    2. Thanks, Charley, for giving this some additional attention.

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      I used a link from Reilly’s website in my initial post that provided the more detailed .pdf version of his “Prescription for a Healthy Massachusetts”, so it is there.  However, I noticed that they have it under the Massachusetts Action Plan section and not the link from the front page. 

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      Thankfully, for Blue Mass Groupies, it’s right here on this site.

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