How to Fix Health Care: Lasik Surgery For The Medical Debate
ReasonTV asked:
Make no mistake about it. Health care reform is coming. But what's the best way to fix our health care system, which is an inefficient, complicated mess of private actors, third-party payers, public subsidies, and innumerable state and federal regulations? Should we place our faith in the government or in the free market? ObamaCare supporters argue that the answer lies in more government—more subsidies, more regulations, a law mandating individuals buy health-insurance coverage and, of ...
Make no mistake about it. Health care reform is coming. But what's the best way to fix our health care system, which is an inefficient, complicated mess of private actors, third-party payers, public subsidies, and innumerable state and federal regulations? Should we place our faith in the government or in the free market? ObamaCare supporters argue that the answer lies in more government—more subsidies, more regulations, a law mandating individuals buy health-insurance coverage and, of ...
@Lexduden
No way?
It's like these bartenders I meet who say they can't afford healthcare.
Then, in the next conversation they tell me how they just got back from cancun and vegas and the bahamas, and they're going to france next week.
the US IS NOT A FREE MARKET!!!
Why don't you save some keystrokes and just say «I'm a loser»?
You are right...Europe didn't get out of recession because they embraced socialism! Europe increased consumption taxes, lowered income taxes, and lowered corporate taxes because ...they were all necessary to keep the existing social programs running! It is extremely difficult to cut back government programs...but you can reform them like they did in the Netherlands, or privatize most industries like they did in Denmark.
I used public education, I'm glad it was available because my family didn't have enough money for private school.
have you heard of the «flat rate box» ads? Type that up in the search bar above
if I'm walking through a rough part of town, I hope I have an m1911 with me.
Also, the govt «made us feel better» about public education and look where that is.
@Lexduden
There is nothing reasonable in your wishy-washy view. You should run for office.
@brazenhubris
The idea socialism even comunism is good, but when you factor in the human it becomes what we know of today in North Korea and other places. No the free market does not ALWAYS lower prices and raise quality. Though it often does. But in health care there needs to coverage for everyone. While I agree that the free market is usaly the way to go, but health care one needs to be more social. The US is more me me me. Especialy Western Europe is more us us us.This is godd and bad.
@Lexduden
It's always practiced with force, which makes it bad, period. Private socialism isn't socialism, it's organized charity- which is what people who can't take care of themselves need. Free capitalism drives prices down, and quality up. That's just the nature of it.
Okay maybe that is not the best comparison, but I do know there is no reason for the insurance companies to improve affordability when they have monopolies.
To continue my point. e. g.: Bronchitis.
(w/ public option) If you have e.g. you got to the doctor he prescribes antibiotics case closed Maybe a hundred USD. (w/out p.o.) you don't go to the doctor because you can't afford it or it not that bad. But it does get that bad, but by this time it's so bad you have to go to the ICU and stay there 2 or 3 days, all-inall over a thounsand USD. Things like this drive up the cost of health care, because somebody has to pay for it.
Not having universal health care or public option is like not giving prenatal instruction to women with ******* babies. The costs that result, that are carried taxpayers, are out of proportion. Because if they were to get regular care, which would cost maybe a few hundred dollars, serious issues could be dealt with swiftly and usually cost efficiently. On the other hand if regular care would not be covered one would go only in emergencies, likely costing a min of several thousand USD.
I am an american the main reason I live in Germany is that in the states there is no way on God's green earth I could get or aford healthcare. There are other reasons for instance I got an aprenticeship paid by the goverment because I probably could'nt get one on the «free market». Not that that got me any work. If I could get affordable healthcare with my pre.existing conditions I would be more likly to move back. And about NATO it's that way because the US wanted it that way. Mow maybe not.
Socialism in and of itself is not bad Period. It's how it is practice that makes it godd or bad. Moderate Socialsim is not bad.
allawayjared: Comparing a local police presence to a single payer regime is a joke, right? I assume you know the vast differences.
The list of goods and services that are better delivered via socialism rather than by capitalism is really short. Health care is not on that list.
Health care reform must encourage competition and innovation in the marketplace (single payer will do neither). THAT will drive down costs and increase availability of care--which is the point of this video.
I agree cops do need to leave us alone in some respects. Which is why I am politically active in trying to influence legislation. On the other hand when my guitar got stolen, I reported it to the police, and I got my guitar out of the Pawn Shop no problem.
@Gyrode
It's not as if tee-totalers don't die in ugly ways like the rest of us. If I'm free, then I can make sure quite cheaply that I don't feel any pain as I die. Beyond that, charity can step in and help me, otherwise I pay for my health care like anyone else. When it comes down to it, whether you're destitute or George Harrison with a gazillion bucks, you're still laying there hooked up to the machine that goes ping waiting to die. The question is why does it cost a fortune- SOCIALISM!!!!!
@allawayjared
Why not a government grocer, or computer engineer, or gardner, or post-clerk or child-care or teacher? Because they **** the life out of you. I don't want police on the wrong side of natural law (bothering people who create and purchase «illegal drugs») and I don't want them in the middle of anything except defense of my liberty and necessary infrastructure, as in the Constitution. If I want a contract with an insurer, I'll agree to that contract, otherwise, leave me alone.
If you're walking through a part of town that is kind of scary, and all of a sudden you notice there are some police in their car nearby, you feel a little bit better, why can't you feel the same way about a government insurance person?
Someone has to make fire trucks, someone has to make books, someone has to build these buildings library, fire department, police department, We don't force people to do these things, we pay them with taxes. Why can't we pay people to collect money in a pool and send it back out when people need it (insurance)? What is the difference? You trust police to bust bad guys with tax dollars why can't you trust government insurance to pay your doctor with tax dollars?
There still has to be a paper trail and accountability. I agree about the restrictions...but someone who is going to take recreational drugs needs to sign a release acknowledging they could lose their insurance for recklessness, for example. The problem I have here is that many abusers essentially make the city pay...
The addons are also to cover more of the 30% coinsurance. But yes, health INSURANCE is supposed to be for catastrophic events! not normal procedures...as I have been saying before...
Great video- but you left out the most important piece of the puzzle that I revealed in my '94 book: Conservative philosophy (capitalism) supports the end of all types of drug prohibition, including «prescription» drugs. No adult should have to receive permission from another human being in order to purchase the drug of choice, unless there is a direct threat to national security involved. Doctors don't have a monopoly on knowledge, any more than a mechanic does for your car.
What is so bad about «add-ons» that is just luxury stuff. An example of an «add-on» is paying a little extra for insurance to make sure you get a room to yourself instead of sharing a room with people where your beds are separated by curtains. I don't care if I share a room, so long as I don't have to sell my house when I have a catastrophic event.
I have, on tv...all I am trying to point out to you is that a freer market system works better than both the employer driven third party payer plans and the state insurance mandate...because if France's «universal healthcare» would have licked this problem, there would be NO 30% coinsurance or private insurance add-ons! Consumer driven always beats both situations out.
I've never seen an advertisement for the postal service, it seems to me like the postal service is more of a medium through which advertisements are disseminated.