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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: geode00 who wrote (262848)4/27/2008 1:38:48 AM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Costs include things like the huge number of hours doctors spend putzing around with insurance companies asking for permission and the filling of forms required for payment.

And such costs also occur with public systems. And most proposed public systems would still allow private insurance.

Negotiating for lower price is not the same thing as setting prices.

When you are a government monopsony buyer for a market segment it pretty much is.

Considering that drugs can kill people, I'm not sure how much less stringent you want the FDA to be.

In terms of what's allowed? Much less stringent. In terms of what they actually endorse? The difference would be much less.

Ideally the endorsement could come from private sector testing labs and certification authorities, but people are used to the FDA, and its mere existence, isn't one of my priorities in terms of shrinking government.

The one that I think most Americans would agree with is getting rid of for profit health insurance companies.

I don't think most Americans would agree with that.

Responsiveness to patients and accountability can be missing from both public and private employees.

True, but its more likely to be a problem in the public sector. Not necessarily because of the employees, but because of the incentives higher up, and because of the lower degree of flexibility in most public sector institutions.

The more expensive and lower quality the US health care system becomes

It is getting more expensive, but the quality is going up, not down.
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