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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: i-node who wrote (688898)12/18/2012 7:04:58 AM
From: Alighieri  Read Replies (1) of 1574042
 
The answers to all of those questions are, "It would wreck the entire system." You can't just price control half an industry without destroying the other half. And if you price control all of an industry, you're going to supply problems out the ass -- as has always happened when we've tried price controls. And it isn't possible for our government to do it any other way; government run health care is always price controlled -- some governments can tolerate it better than others.

But you haven't changed the cost curve at all...you have now added private profits to the cost equation and shifted the cost of senior HC totally to seniors...all you are doing is to take more cost progressiveness out of the system.

The per capita cost in the US is too high...much higher than it is in single payer based HC systems. I don't care how you apportion the unit cost, the aggregate hasn't changed and in fact may have gone up. Until we learn to do smarter, more economical care, we won't solve the problem.

Al
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