open source health care
“Imagine, for example, a cooperative clinic at the neighborhood level. It might be staffed mainly with nurse-practitioners:
- they could treat most traumas and ordinary infectious diseases themselves, with several neighborhood clinics together having an MD on retainer… for more serious referrals.
- they could rely entirely on generic drugs…
- their standard of practice would focus much more heavily on preventive medicine, nutrition, etc.,
- would be cheap for members of the cooperative who didn’t have to pay the cost of an expensive office visit to an MD for such service.”
