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

To: skinowski who wrote (24634)	9/1/2012 6:50:56 PM
From: i-node	3 Recommendations Respond to of 42652

>> The problem is - implementation. There is no way to avoid arbitrary fund allocations by biased bureaucrats. No, you're entirely correct. Tinkering with market forces is still tinkering and arbitrary and stifling. >> They did as good a job as they could developing a way to compare brain surgery with well baby visits and with chest cat scans and a million of other things Yeah, it is a pretty tough assignment. >> By the time bureaucrats are done assigning RVU's (at $35 apiece) that's all they are doing -- fixing prices as expressed in dollars. Right. The idea, of course, was to take a pie and slice it up in a fair way. I just think that in the end it provided a mechanical method that was just as arbitrary as any other method you come up with. There really isn't, AFAIK, a "good" way of implementing price controls -- one that doesn't rob someone. Usually EVERYONE -- consumers, taxpayers, providers, everyone.