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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: TimF who wrote (51690)3/4/2008 10:27:46 PM
From: spiral3  Read Replies (1) of 542191
 
Tim, I grant that food consumption is involuntary, but by elastic I meant how people can adjust their food budgets according to their ability to pay. People faced with the choice of putting food on the table or going to see the doctor generally choose the former because without it the latter is pointless. This however does not diminish the involuntary nature of healthcare consumption. I'm afraid your taxonomy of types just does not speak to the millions of uninsured whose quality of life is negatively impacted in the current situation.

Well then present some evidence that it isn't the most efficent delivery system for health care...

I suppose that market forces could theoretically deliver the most efficient health care system, but the evidence of this actually happening anywhere is hard to come by. Market forces in US healthcare are distorted to the point where US healthcare consumers pay more for less and insurance costs are so onerous that large companies are struggling under the burden. Insurance companies enjoy a conflict of interest that would be outlawed in any other sector.

There are numerous studies showing that the healthcare cost per capita in the US are significantly higher than anywhere else in the rest of the world without any exceptional gain in mortality or any number of measures normally used to quantify such things. In general it seems that the quality of care in the US is great, when you get it, but the fact that we do no better overall while spending more than others, is hardly a pointer to greater efficiencies.
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