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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (760123)12/30/2013 2:21:58 AM
From: i-node   of 1575354
 
>> I think it's like that because of ALL health insurance.

You can think whatever you want to but that position is not supported by the facts. But it totally makes sense; half of the health care economy is price controlled as a result of MCR/MCD. So, costs are shifted to the other half. You have one half of a 2.4 Trillion dollar economy absorbing 100% of the price increases. It is not surprising prices increases are double what they ought to be.

Your solution, and that of pretty much everyone on the Left, is to just price control the entire health care economy. The problem with that is that the US, which has heretofore been responsible for over half of the world's health care innovation, will stop innovating. New, lifesaving drugs and procedures that would have been developed, won't be.

It is really a classic case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Medicare fucked the system up; get rid of the problem. While you're at it, get rid of health insurance that covers consumable items like birth control and routine doctor visits. Whatever portion of the problem isn't solved by killing Medicare will be killed by giving patients skin in the game.

Any health care payment system that does not adhere to these two basic principles will be a failure, period.
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