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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (7416)7/8/2009 1:22:53 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
In a free market

The market is free, other than the fact that government has inserted itself into it to the tune of 46%.

the end user drives prices lower based on his cost/benefit analysis and competition. That isn't the case today.

Where is the evidence of this? What makes you think that individuals can drive harder bargains than corporate benefits administrators?

In fact, what you say is totally at odds with your own claims (and those of your liberal cohorts) that by having larger numbers of insureds under contract, Medicare can wield more power insisting on cuts in pricing.

Do you not think that Walmart can get better per-employee pricing than its employees could do on their own? Have you ever priced group insurance versus a similar individual policy from the same insurer?

To be clear, I'm not claiming that getting the employer out of the picture won't improve the situation. I'm simply asking for EVIDENCE of what appears to be a counter-intuitive claim, rather than just representing some liberal dogma as fact.
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