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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (2358)10/26/2007 2:37:10 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
The car industry from its early days through it consolidation. I'm not talking about its current status.

OK there is the big five in health insurance.

The five biggest, but its not like their aren't other companies.

Most industries have far more than 5 major players

And most industries in most national or international markets don't have economies of scale such that serving 1/5th of the total market is tremendously more efficient than trying to use half the resources to serve 1/10th.

But you seem to be at least implying, if not outright stating, that things would be much more efficient with fewer (up to the point of just having 1) insurer. If that was the case we wouldn't have the big 5, we'd have the big 3, maybe even the big two (wouldn't just be just one because anti-trust laws would be against that, I suppose having the government have a monopoly is just fine though...), and those 2 or 3 would control more of the market than the "big 5" do now.
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