[lit-ideas] Re: The flu

>Equally, medicare's not paying for out-of-state treatment is bad.  I know you
have good hospitals that are in effect national (federal?) as some of ours are,
but I assume only some categories of people can be treated in your top ones.<

I'm not sure--Virginia?--who said that Medicare does not pay for out-of-state
treatment, but I hope that this wasn't all that was said. Medicare provides
coverage anywhere in the US. It does not though provide coverage overseas. (So
don't jump off the Eiffel tower.)

There are no 'national hospitals.' There are just more well-known and
prestigious ones. A regional hospital or medical center is going to provide more
services than might a rural clinic. This is surely true in most countries.

With the spread of advanced technology and the spread of specialization it is
unlikely that anyone here would be sent to the Mayo Clinic (which seems no
longer the almost mystical place it was in the middle of the last century) for
diagnosis. There would be no point in it.

The only criteria one would have to meet to be treated in a 'top' hospital,
everything else being equal, would be those having to do with specialization,
the unavailability of needed services elsewhere, etc. 

Robert Paul
Reed College
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