Listening to the Congresswoman from Missouri's comment about the lack of health care providers in her rural district, I thought of the unemployed RV workers in Elkhart, Indiana. Why not bring those two problems together and provide a solution for both.
Rural citizens lack health care providers, worker in Elkhart, IN need jobs. Why not have the RV companies in Elkhart build "mobile clinics" instead of RVs??? Why not leverage the money the DOD has spent on "miniaturizing/mobilizing" all kinds of medical equipment for the mobile medical needs of our troops in Iraq???
Seems like a rapid, win-win-win for everyone. More rural citizens get frequent, regular access to medical care, the unemployed RV workers go back to work and the taxpayers save money over a few building brick-and-mortar clinics. We even get the benefit of having "mobile medical care" that can be deployed in case of a natural disaster or in the event of a large scale terrorist attack. Wouldn't 25 "mobile clinics" have been useful in the aftermath of Katrina and Rita when all the hospitals were out of commission???
I've sent the idea on to whitehouse.gov. Anyone have some more thoughts/ideas on how to make this work? Do you think I should send the idea on to HHS as a possible ARRA project or is it too crazy?