Monday, January 09, 2006
Our Envied Healthcare System
The Wall Street Journal asks:
Let's see: The biggest problems are private entities that are willing to insure but too oftn unwilling to pay for care. Can a "free market" fix this? Maybe but it's not assured that it would. And before that point, you have the awfully major point of the facts that insurance is expensive and often obtained through the employer. So right there the free market is awfully limited.
Of course the wingnuts think a good idea for the less wealthy is a mandatory cheapo no-fault policy but that would provide limited coverage. Of course for those people, a better plan was no coverage and the option of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
And a related problem, outside the medical insurance sphere is the corruption (moral, at least) of Big Pharma -- or at least the bigness. This includes the awful sale practices and bloated pricing, just off the top of my head.
Consumer Choice: Can It Cure
The Nation's Health-Care Ills?
Let's see: The biggest problems are private entities that are willing to insure but too oftn unwilling to pay for care. Can a "free market" fix this? Maybe but it's not assured that it would. And before that point, you have the awfully major point of the facts that insurance is expensive and often obtained through the employer. So right there the free market is awfully limited.
Of course the wingnuts think a good idea for the less wealthy is a mandatory cheapo no-fault policy but that would provide limited coverage. Of course for those people, a better plan was no coverage and the option of a Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
And a related problem, outside the medical insurance sphere is the corruption (moral, at least) of Big Pharma -- or at least the bigness. This includes the awful sale practices and bloated pricing, just off the top of my head.
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