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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (3257)12/16/2007 8:19:01 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
I think you miss the point.

I don't miss his point. I dismiss your inference.

These for profit organizaions (private insurers) have interjected themselves into the picture without providing any added value.

Mary, you're conflating the profit and the overhead. Sure, profit adds no direct value. It may add indirect value. Hard to say. Either way, profit and overhead are not the same thing. You could, for example, have a non-profit insurer model. Would they still add no value? If non-profit hospitals are less costly than for-profit hospitals, how about switching to non-profit private insurers. What about that model?

You cannot aptly conclude from any difference between for-profits and non-profits that private is inherently more costly than government.
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