Kasz216 said:
1) The government is really inefficent. 2) Healthcare is fucked up because bargaining is so split up.
The truth is, neither is true. Well, government is really inefficient, but not in this particular case.
I think the difference between me and most people is that I disagree with captain kirk. I do believe in the no-win scenario.
Healthcare I believe is one of those situtations. Free Market, Single Payer, everything in between. I don't think any of it will actually fix healthcare costs. At least not without drastically cutting research and adoption of new technology.
5% of the people end up using 50% of our healthcare and healthcare costs.
At the end of the day, cutting down the number of people with multiple major health risks is the only way to REALLY get the costs down... and THAT needs to be done via personal responsibility/lifestyle changes. In otherwords, we're fucked. |
So you publicly fund research even with no promise that any of that research will be profitable, and phase in the fruits of those researches later when it's financially viable. The financial incentive need not come from the market for the research to occur. If it's really everyone else piggybacking off of American research, then build a global medical research fund.
There is no political problem that lacks a solution, you just have to muster the capital.
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