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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (9606)9/18/2009 7:03:57 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
I think that folks are looking this ideologically. One side cares most about the economics and the other side cares most about protecting the access of consumer to marginal treatments (although there's also the factor of propping up the providers of those treatments). It seems to me that the biggest cost regulations are those that require policies being sold in a given state to include a laundry list of marginal treatments. If those were removed, then inter-state sales wouldn't be an issue.

I find it interesting that the ideological divide doesn't hold up when it comes to rationing. With rationing, the sides switch. The left is accepting of rationing marginal treatments and the outrage comes from the right, despite the effect of marginal-valued treatments on cost. But only when it's the government doing the rationing. Fascinating stuff.
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