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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: TimF who wrote (13707)3/2/2010 9:47:13 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 42652
 
Even if its true that the government is good at wringing out these types of costs (and I don't think it is, at least without losing quality and responsiveness), they only represent a fraction of the total care and insurance bundle.

The biggest cost problem with the medical providers is moral hazard. The only way to deal effectively with moral hazard is to get away from fee-for-service and low co-pay policies. The government proposals go in the other direction. They want to do away with or reduce co-pays and the do nothing to reduce fee-for-service.

The only thing in the proposals to counter this problem is the plan to evaluate services for effectiveness and to ration ineffective ones, criticized as death panels.

I don't see any opportunity that is palatable to the reformers. I'll be interested in seeing what Alighieri comes up with.
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