tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post8757156506218971877..comments2024-03-11T13:16:19.098-04:00Comments on Ad Orientem: Britain's "evil" health care systemUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-64966631155216417972009-08-17T17:05:35.668-04:002009-08-17T17:05:35.668-04:00I like the free market. It's a wonderful tool,...I like the free market. It's a wonderful tool, but this tool doesn't result in good then we use a different tool. Medicine is likely the most inelastic marketplace possible (how inelastic is life or death?). I completely disagree with those who say the problem is government involvement.<br /><br />We would have nothing but herba-life and chiropractors in this country if it weren't for government regulation. What amazes me most is that with so many altruistic people who get into health care that the evil that also involves itself is able to still make it the most corrupt marketplace after Wall Street.<br /><br />I would, in my desperate attempts to remain as conservative as possible, prefer the states take care of their own, but apparently they are all bankrupt and unable to care for themselves.<br /><br />So conservative idealism gives way to independent pragmatism, again.<br /><br />Suppliers will have to accept lower profit margins. Some standards will have to be lowered (no marble floors in the hospital entrance). Doctors will have to see their profession as a service again. Lawsuits will have to be decommissioned as lotteries. And folks will have to confront the fact that we won't spend millions of dollars to keep the alive another few months. The conversations about exactly how much and to whom certain prohibitively expensive treatments go will be ugly and uncomfortable, but there it is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-78129731872328811832009-08-17T09:44:58.293-04:002009-08-17T09:44:58.293-04:00The trouble with the Health Insurance REform, as M...The trouble with the Health Insurance REform, as Mr. Obama now dubs it (insurance reform, not care reform) is that it doesn't actually address what's actually wrong with our system, namely, greed and corruption.<br /><br />What's wrong with our system is (for example) neurosurgeons making millions of dollars a month, a stomach-feeding kit (lancet, rubber tube, several gauze pads) costing $1,000, a solution of iodine in the Emergency Room costing $1,500, and so forth. <br /><br />Nobody of any party is even talking about the real problems.<br /><br />The tip-off that we are going to see cosmetic changes only, without any real change, is that you see insurance companies, drug companies, and physicians all backing this "reform." They wouldn't do it if they stood to lose anything. Which means they'll all continue to make obscene profits at our expense.Anastasia Theodoridishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16092531121989260111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-56519241443377986392009-08-17T09:07:57.909-04:002009-08-17T09:07:57.909-04:00"Excepting radical libertarians I think there..."Excepting radical libertarians I think there is a general agreement that our system is gravely flawed and in need of some sort of intervention."<br /><br />The "radical" libertarians also think our system is gravely flawed, but would like to see changes in the form of removing a lot of the government involvement that they (we?) see as causing most of the problems in the first place.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25740524.post-82057990772613173042009-08-16T16:49:37.482-04:002009-08-16T16:49:37.482-04:00While my sentiments on many issues are not even cl...While my sentiments on many issues are not even close to those of either party, I tend to line up a little better with the Republicans than the Democrats. Nevertheless, Sarah Palin has made me cringe from day one. While I have my doubts that I could ever vote conscientiously for a pro-choice candidate, if the Republicans put Palin forward in 2012, I'll have a lot of trouble voting Nobama. Maybe I'll vote for a third party.Edhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02029716952735323038noreply@blogger.com