This is a neat organization

I’ve never see an advocacy org quite like this…it called the healthcare Navigation Project. It tries to help people understand HOW to use their healthcare.

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They reference CDC patient navigators which mostly seem to be directed at specific dieseases/conditions. One example of the CDC result searching for diabetes products is this:

https://diabetesjournals.org/clinical/article/43/2/240/157477/Development-of-a-Diabetes-Navigator-Toolkit-to

I used Google to search for, “Diabetic patient navigators”. YMMBP (Your Mileage May Be Profiled). Another link:

I suspect all of these have just been canned, however the idea of educating young people on the functioning of the US healthcare system might have survived. The web site you quoted doesn’t seem to have any of the magic keywords that would attract the helper T-cells.

I have to wonder why this basic piece of education isn’t a compulsory part of the US school system; I assume it isn’t, but it’s so important: Why not?