Albert,
re: "Insurance companies do not control the cost of medical service but rather average it over a group of people. Government (state and federal) interventions, rising costs, demand for lower premiums, etc creates less than desirable industry environment.
In many cases doctors are no longer concern with providing care but rather collecting as much money as they could with very limited competition from within their own community. That forces insurers to manage the cost any way they could or exit the business ...
Etc, Etc, Etc"
What I'm saying is that all these problems are symptoms of a consumer product category that became a perquisite, and was relieved of free market discipline.
(BTW, if AMD couldn't prove themselves in retail, with the very democratic and real consumer quality filter, would AMD ever be given any chance to penetrate the corporate market? If corporations were the only decision makers on microprocessors, as they are in health care... Is there an analogy here? Would the choices be limited, the overall quality lower, the prices higher?)
John |
