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Politics : A US National Health Care System?

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To: Lane3 who wrote (9079)	9/4/2009 11:47:07 AM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (2) of 42652

You are right. I think the author did a good job writing this article, but he's also - sort of - a victim of the Stockholm Syndrome, about which Maurice was writing so eloquently. We're all victims. By now, government fixed prices for medical services have been around for so long that we no longer KNOW how to allow markets to do their magic - and determine true prices. People voice opinions about how we should improve the fixing of prices -- but what will happen will be NEW dislocations. A few years down the road we may have more primary care docs, but not enough Cardiologists.... for all I know. There is no better way to determine true prices for goods and services (and guide optimal allocation of resources) than free markets. And in healthcare, free markets have been dead for decades.

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