One idea might be a Bio-Med-Bus, a traveling medical service for testing and diagnosis. Let us say that a group of 100 people drive to a doctor's office each week for tests. How much fuel would be saved if the tests came to them? How much less carbon would enter the atmosphere if the vehicle that brought the testing to them was powered by bio-diesel? The bio-bus technology is already in use. Here it is in Scotland. 

How much would it cost for such a bus and its operation for a year? Why not put these workers back to work building such a bus? Why not propose to Wells Fargo, the bank foreclosing on Country Coach, and a bank receiving TARP money, to cooperate with such a venture as an investment of the taxpayer's money? What has Wells Fargo been doing with our money anyway?

The Bio-Med-Bus might charge a small fee for its services. Ten dollars or less. How many lives could be saved through early diagnosis by one such bus? By twenty? By a thousand? How many people would go back to work to make it? Could such a vehicle with medical technologies installed be sold on the world market? 

Such an investment would not only save lives, put people to work, but provide the kind of research and development we need for a better and greener healthcare system.

This idea may be implausible but that is not my point. We have to start thinking about how healthcare can be made greener and the economic and ecological benefits of such efforts. Obama asks for ideas and innovative thinking. Let's all start thinking.