http://www.ncpa.org/ba/ba323/ba323.html Scroll to rationing with price control, little more than half way down.
You want a "cradle to the grave" system like they have in Europe. Fine. Just turn over half of your income to the federal government. The free market place provides the best mechanism for keeping costs down and quality high. Government regaulation has always caused more problems that it has ever solved.
I'm not saying I am in favor of a cradle to the grave system, but in the US we have neither the lowest costs or the highest quality of care. Granted, this is not a "true" free market system, but the free market system assumes the parties on the supply side are completely honest and would never stoop to price fixing. Given we pretty much all agree that the insurance and drug companies are greedy, how much improvement do you really think we'd see if government regulations were magically removed? Not much at all, I'd bet.
of course not. My objection was to the notion that R&D is where most of the costs of drugs goes to. The pharmaceutical Industry in America is a highly profitible business.
and I never said that it wasn't "profitable". I mean we are in America correct. Everyone is out to make a buck. My point was all these other countries that are boasting "better" health care are just pumping sunshine up your back side. We spend more on R&D than any other country and they just freeload off of that time and $$.
Maybe it was the two prosthetic legs I had to buy that’s doing the talking! Each leg is a "NEW CAR". Some days you wake up and everything changes. Just saying.
So you say. Why are we so low among industrialized countries in health care, then? How exactly do they do that?
When you say low what are you saying? Low as in % of population without insurance? Our services are among the best in the world. Not to mention you don't have to wait in line. Health care is not a right. It is a privilege.. This is what people don't understand.
Our care system could be improved, sure, but it is not IMO among the lowest of industrialized nations. If it is as you say "so sub par" then why do we have people coming here to get operations? You know, if this country is so terrible and so broken someone explain to me just why EVERYONE wants to come here? Hmmm. Must not be so bad off after all.
