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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: skinowski who wrote (9077)	9/4/2009 11:31:46 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 42652

"The funny thing is, paying more for medical care that's more valuable does makes sense. That's how capitalism should work. Unfortunately, ever since William Hsiao created the system in 1985, the collusive market valuation of medical services considered only the doctor (paying for his or her mental effort and stress, for example). The system completely fails to consider the value to the person actually getting the service. If we did, for example, angioplasties for stable chest pain would never be worth so much more than outpatient visits to lower cholesterol and blood pressure, which are just as effective." Can you explain that to me? The value of something to the customer in other arenas has some effect on the price but very often what is of most value isn't expensive at all. I just bought the perfect jeans for seventeen bucks. They were exactly what I have been looking for but couldn't find. I would have paid much more for them but they were priced at only seventeen dollars so that's what I paid. The price was a function of what it cost to make and market them, not their utility to me. I don't see why medical care should be different.

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