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

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (24391)	7/31/2012 9:49:31 AM
From: Lane3	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

"But because we’ve gone through the looking glass here in the US, you get people arguing that government is bad at cost controls,and that we can save money by eliminating them." I don't get that. Who is arguing that we can save money by eliminating cost controls? There are lots of negative side effects of the kind of cost controls that we do but higher prices is sure not one of them. The only way cost goes up as a result of cost controls is that demand goes up resulting in greater utilization. But that mostly matters when the patient is footing the bill. Or if you couple it with utilization controls, aka "death panels."