mrstickball said:
Our system is fraught with insane compliance costs because of government. Our government's interference with the market comprises more costs than the actual care itself. Its only going to get more expensive, thanks to the Democrats and Obama, because they've increased taxes on medical equipment. Having a universal healthcare system may not fix the compliance costs. If the regulations still exist that doctors, nurses, and hospitals must deal with in order to be compensated, then it means that everyone simply foots the bill of the most expensive health care system in the world. Fix the cost issues first by removing the massive amount of government compliances (as well as the cartel known as the AMA which licenses everyone). The system will be rather cheap. Then, at that point, discuss the argument of universal health care. But I do believe that at that time, everyone would be covered due to how cheap insurances are. |
I believe that the worst systems in the world are those combinin public and private governance. Franchising, outsourcing, regional cable monopolies, UK's private finance initiatives, and so on. You get the inefficiency/lack of competition of public systems combined with the profit-seeking and lack of accountability of the markets.
If we must have a system like you describe, I want to see the government have no role in the choice of facility. Medicare/Medicaid covered people must be allowed to choose any hospital or provider and the government will pay the same rate for care as the market would, otherwie the size of the government's custom will continue to distort the market.
