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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alighieri who wrote (13778)	3/2/2010 9:16:53 PM
From: skinowski	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Administrative Costs in Health Care: A Primer I actually started looking into administrative costs a few weeks ago And this person thinks he can sit down and write "A Primer"?? Wow, we should be so grateful that now and then we get guys coming down who are God's true free gifts to humanity. I dealt most of my life, for over 30 years, with issues related directly or indirectly to costs of healthcare. And yet, after 2 reads, I still can't quite figure out what this man is saying. As of now, no one I spoke with knew of good data separating the costs of dealing with Medicare and with private insurers. But there are studies comparing Canada and the United States that show a single payer vastly reduces administrative spending. OK, I'm sold, let's go for it.

To: Alighieri who wrote (13778)	3/3/2010 8:53:11 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 42652

I provided you links to different think tanks. Your "evidence" is a liberal journalist's hasty compendium of liberal democrat talking points. As it stands I think any reasonable person would say that my point is proven and yours is hype. You highlighted the wrong part. But no matter how good you got at slashing administrative costs, they will never be a panacea to the problems of the system. But adding the extra cost of government administration would go in the wrong direction. The main question," he said, "is why are health care costs going up at 2.4 percent a year faster than GDP? And most of the answers to that question have nothing to do with administrative costs. It is interesting to note that your liberal journalist chose not to answer the question despite the fact that the answer is common knowledge. It is widely understood that the reason for this is because we evolved a third party payer system. People who don't have a personal interest in the cost of their medical care will sign onto any treatment course if it is described as marginally better. If you want to change the course then expand access to HSAs. With people owning their own medical care money they will shop around. ............. The Obama/PelosiCare solution to individuals' preference for the best care available despite cost is government rationing. Rather than allowing people to weigh their own personal best interests and make personal choices they want to curtail freedom.