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

To: i-node who wrote (34881)	3/5/2014 2:18:50 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

Unless there is a properly functioning market, in which case competition will be a limiting factor against abuse. Yes, I thought that unilateral was implied in my use of decide. If there are other players weighing in on the payment, be it from competition or distributed payers, then the biller is not the decider. This is why the co-op arrangement has a lot of appeal to me. Anytime you have a situation where the beneficiary is not the payer you have the problem. The co-op arrangement may mitigates because beneficiaries have a social investment but the problem does not go away.

To: i-node who wrote (34881)	3/5/2014 2:19:07 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 42652

Unless there is a properly functioning market, in which case competition will be a limiting factor against abuse. Yes, I thought that unilateral was implied in my use of decide. If there are other players weighing in on the payment, be it from competition or distributed payers, then the biller is not the decider. This is why the co-op arrangement has a lot of appeal to me. Anytime you have a situation where the beneficiary is not the payer you have the problem. The co-op arrangement may mitigates because beneficiaries have a social investment but the problem does not go away.