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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: 10K a day who wrote (258734)11/7/2005 10:26:44 AM
From: i-node  Read Replies (2) of 1573454
 
>>>> INSURANCE co's are too powerful.

Maybe. I would have no objection to having them a little more highly regulated to provide for more fairness within the system.

But the argument that healthcare ought to be free, or ought to provided pursuant to some government program, or any other socialized approach, should be viewed in context. These people are the same group who bitched about the Fed's handling of Katrina. And Krugman wants to turn the healthcare system over to them?

Our healthcare system does a fantastic job -- better than in any other country on earth. Of course, it is a huge system and there is room for improvement. But you don't take the biggest system on earth, which is functionally better than any other on earth, and throw it out in hopes of improving it -- you make changes to it to provide for fairness.

But you damned well had better not remove the profit motive, in any aspect of it. To do so will destroy all that is good about it. You get the best physicians in the world because they're able to make a good living working 4 days a week. You get the best medications in the world because the drug companies are making money producing them (which may include selling them cheaper in other countries, another inherent unfairness in the system). And you get the best medical devices in the world because companies have the freedom to sell as many CT scanners as they can build here. Take any of this away and the best system on earth crumbles.

That system also supports weaker systems (like the one in Canada) all around the world, so without America's capitalistic healthcare system, the health of people around the world would suffer. The entire world has a stake in it.
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