| akuma587 said: @ mafoo Spending excess money on healthcare is a drain on the economy. It is an inefficient use of resources that prevents long term growth. For a guy who loves supply side economics so much, you should understand better than anyone the value of investing in long-term growth. Giving these hospital economic incentives (like tax reimbursements) will benefit everyone in the long run. You are the one who advocates trickle-down supply-side economics more than anyone else. I don't really see how you can be against this. And it would also mean lower taxes in the long run. Medicaid and Medicare are a huge part of the government's budget, and they will become an increasingly large percentage of the budget. Not fixing this problem would cost taxpayers more money. And that's not even addressing the fact that insurance rates are already excessively high and even insurance companies are advocating for this change to happen. |
I am not against it, I am saying it's not really going to save the consumer any money, because the system is broken to begin with.
Healthcare needs reform in a bad way. If reform was done right 20 years ago, these systems would be great, and in place already.
The healthcare industry is the only one I know about where you have a third party. You have the doctor, patient, and then a third party telling doctors what they can charge, and what the patient can have done.
Changing that third party from a private company to the government does not fix the issue.
For example, if you has a system where there was no health insurance, and you had to pay for everything, cost would matter to you. If cost matters to you, you shop around. If your shopping around, healthcare providers have to be competitive, thus they all would have adopted this system a long time ago.
it's why the medical industry where health insurance is not a factor (like eye surgery and plastic surgery) have gotten better and cheeper over the years, and the one where insurance is, has gotten worse and more expensive.
How many Lasik eye surgery clinics use Paper? Probably none.
