Single Prayer Health Care System

Thousands upon thousands of Katrina victims, most of them poor, need urgent and long term medical care. Their medical records are destroyed or unavailable.

They are clearly being treated for free now, but how long will that last? At what point will people discover that Katrina has swept them out of their "preferred provider area?" How much will the nation spend treating these people? How will the hospitals be set up again?

Suddenly a universal health-care system with national disaster contingency plans and safely archived easily accessible record keeping seems less like galloping socialism and more like a practical necessity.