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

To: skinowski who wrote (17489)	4/30/2010 11:06:08 AM
From: Lane3	4 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

I think what we need is less regulation and fewer restrictions - in other words, we need the government to step out of the way. We just keep getting in deeper. That chat I had with gg about waiting lists is another example. When you manage centrally, you push here, something pops out there. Canada has apparently determined, either intentionally or by default, that they're better off with waiting lists than with higher costs or reduced benefits. The waiting list us where it popped out and they weren't inclined to push back and watch it pop out somewhere else. With the personal habit issue, you can let the insurance companies rate risk, control individual behaviors, or watch overall costs rise. With the "reform" legislation we pushed back on the insurance rates underwriting risk. So, as long as we are in command and control mode, we either control behaviors or costs will go up. Hard to tell which of those will end up being what pops out. I'm a systems person. I started out in big command and control systems. I came to understand their inherent problems and came to appreciate and advocate the more natural decentralization approach, which in economic systems is the market. I finally "got" it. Dunno why others are so invested in command and control. [Might make an interesting study. I know why I started out that way. It seemed more efficient for one body of really smart people to study the question and make a global decision than for everybody to reinvent the decision-making wheel. Fortunately, I learned my lesson. Can't quite get a handle on what's going on with those on the other side.]