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

To: TimF who wrote (24231)	7/17/2012 4:56:30 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

If you establish price controls, you don't necessarily get a shortage. Primarily, you get less profit. So, if you are establishing price controls as a way to ration, it's an inefficient way of doing it. If you want to ration, then just ration. If you want price controls, then establish price controls. And if you want both, do both. It seems to me that there are basically two ways of achieving the stated objective: rationing and price controls. Trying to frame one as a subset of the other seems contrived to me and I don't see the point other than maybe rationing sounds more scary than price controls so you stir folks up more. But that's a political tactic, not analysis.