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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Road Walker who wrote (7416)	7/8/2009 1:17:53 PM
From: skinowski	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 42652

For over 20 years healthcare has been functioning under a price control regime, established by the Federal government. If Warren Buffett would come to me as a patient and offer to pay for the visit more that the 70-80 bucks "allowed" by medicare, I couldn't accept - I'd be breaking a whole host of federal laws. Price controls tend to create bigger messes than whatever it is they intend to cure. Healthcare was no exception. "Relative value scale" pricing made price competition, for the most part, nonexistent. There is very little "free market" pricing out there. Maybe there is some - mostly at the fringes, like a plastic surgeon who can charge whatever the market will bare for a boob job. Uninsured persons most often can ask for - and receive - a break. Your ol' country doc is almost out of the picture - costs of keeping up with regulations and other costs of running a practice made his economic survival quite unfeasible.

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