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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (1789)8/2/2007 11:48:16 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Government workers tend to have lower wages than equivalent private sector employees, but they often have better benefits. Remember most employees aren't executives. Where talking about people processing claims forms.

Government employees may be more productive than private sector employees on the whole, but that's because you don't have too many government burger flippers and the equivalent. Even when the government needs such functions performed they tend to pay contractors to do it.

At the very high end, private sector workers tend to make a lot more than government workers, but that's mostly because they are so productive.

A lot more would go to routine preventive care which saves money in the long run.

I don't think either a lot more going to routine preventive care, or major cost savings in the long run from the increase in spending on routine preventive care is nearly as certain as you seem to think. And even if it is true that doesn't mean that reduced rationing would not increase costs. Anything that allows for more resources to be poured in to the very expensive cases will increase total costs.

But I think its very likely that rationing would increase, esp. if the system is implemented because of a belief that it will reduce costs.
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