To me it doesn't matter much whether I die because I can't afford a treatment, or I die while waiting for the treatment.
You are equating money with life. I find that offensive and uncivilized.
No, I wasn't doing anything like that.
But if I had been, than your offense at it would be misplaced. Since resources are limited, waste of resources, including money, can costs lives.
Also reducing monetary incentives, reduces the motivation to increase the overall level of resources, to make investments to increase future wealth, efficiency, productivity etc, and to make investments and efforts to develop new drugs, technologies, and techniques that can save lives.
What percentage of the population are hypochondriacs? How large an issue is this?
The percentage is low, the percentage of the cost is higher, and the percentage of the cost if care was cheap or free would be higher still.
But, as I said multiple times now, I see this as only being a small part of the problem. The problem isn't the extreme, the problem is the wide spread small changes at the margin.
No, when the system is a non-profit, there is a larger incentive to reduce costs including incentives for making a healthier population.
Generally for profit concerns have a large incentive to control costs, esp. in terms of getting more bang for the buck.
Government initiatives are more likely to run in to major cost over runs and unexpected higher expenses.
Providing a low-cost or no cost education and then a good salary for life is enough to lure many people into the profession who might otherwise not enter it.
The costs are not just tuition (or even just tuition, room and board, and books, and school fees). The costs is years of your life, putting in more effort to get less money, than if you where not in med school. That is typically seen as being worth it, even for the sort of capable people you would want as doctors, partially because of the very high pay they can get after they graduate. Slash that pay, and you reduce the incentive, even if the government pays for the tuition.
You keep focusing on costs without looking at the benefits to the system and the country as a whole.
I'm looking at the costs because on of the supposed benefits is lowered costs.
As for the benefits of the system, on the net those benefits would be negative.
In that case, you should stop spending money on food. You will starve to death but you will have saved money on food.
Another bizarre non-sequitur. |
