Check out Fred’s latest posting about medical records on the Fred Thompson Report:

You may have heard me the other day defending the American medical system as the best in the world. That doesn’t mean, though, there aren’t problems we should fix.

One of these problems is that there’s no way for most of us to get to our medical records without jumping through hoops. Not only do we end up filling out the same medical forms over and over, we pay both in lives and money.

Some analysts say Americans pay more than 50 billion dollars unnecessarily every year due to problems getting medical records. One in five medical tests, its said, is ordered because results to a previous test have been lost. Others say that many of the 50,000 or so medical errors that result in death each year could be prevented if doctors had the patient information they need. Problems with drug interactions and allergies could also be avoided. And all these problems drive up insurance costs. 

Read the rest of Fred’s posting here.

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