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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: patron_anejo_por_favor who wrote (241874)3/23/2010 7:46:50 AM
From: yard_manRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
>> you'd have a shot at bending the cost curve <<

But this is accepted as a given uncritically: I am not sure I accept that this is necessarily true -- costs have grown disproportionately or unacceptably. By what measure?? CPI?? GDP?? What price health?? Well it depends on who you talk to, I s'pose.

And of course, it is pure evil to assert that it might be ok for the market to "ration" availability of some very high cost procedures? But the alternative is to deny economic reality of the scarcity of goods and to assert that government officials can do a better job than markets at getting the most good to the most people ...

Call me an idiot -- but I think the Austrian Economists may just have it right ....

I'd like to avoid some things -- some things I can take action now to avoid and some things may "just happen to me" -- a part of life circumstance or genetics. Perhaps, limited availability of some procedures may be a good thing.

Anyway -- the goal is not hidden -- it is toward what you are talking about --"takeover" -- because that will be the natural result of this bill if it is allowed to stand.

I accept this as inevitable:

1) Everyone -- on the whole -- will be worse off.

2) There will still be a certain number who can get whatever quality of care that they want. Those who are wealthy and/or work for the government.

Natural result of government intervening in markets or making something a right.
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