| eab said: That goes to show you that not one system is all that great, and that people think everything will be better "if only" some one thing changed. Trust me, I work in health care, and its just a crazy buisness. No other sector in the world has such an inelastic demand, regardless of prices. If I say I can take away your chronic pain I can charge $10,000 or $100,000 and I will get just about the same amount of customers. Health care doesn't follow the laws of capitalism that our entire culture is based on. Something unknown needs to change before it bankrupts every insurance company and every socialist government. |
I think you hit the chink in the armor for the conservative argument about health care. I've been saying for a while now, the reason we can't fix health care with deregulation and letting the market run wild is because the law of supply and demand just doesn't work the same way with health care as it does for most things. Of course, pure socialism causes its own problems. That's why we need a smarter mix of free market principles and regulation to fix this mess.
