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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (6453)3/24/2009 5:17:18 PM
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Make it more efficient.
Pay providers less
Ration care.

I agree, but there are limited savings to be had by making it more efficient -- after all, the people who run the health care system today are total idiots -- if there are efficiencies to be had, most have gone after them.

Paying providers less and rationing are kind of variations on the same theme, i.e., cutting the quality of care -- which is ultimately what you have to do to really save money.

If you pay providers less, fewer providers will exist, which will lead to reduced quality or in the extreme, rationing, as you have in countries with socialized medicine (like Canada).

IMO, we have to go for the efficiencies that can be had but we need to be realistic about the gains that are likely to be achieved, and they aren't much.

I don't know what the solution is but I am damned certain it isn't Big Government.
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