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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (2340)10/26/2007 1:17:16 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
re: If there was that much benefit to be gained from reducing the number of insurance companies you would tend to see a lot of mergers, and/or large companies gaining dominance and forcing the smaller companies out already.

Um, where have you been?

If economies of scale beyond the size of the current large health care insurance companies where a clear major benefit than you would see a much greater degree of such mergers and/or large companies taking over the market. Except for niche's you'd probably have at most a handful of insurance companies. Look at what happened in the US with car companies in the 20th century, from scores of companies to "the big three".

re: Generally in the US as government has gotten more involved its caused prices to rise.

Not true.

Very true.
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