Comments on: “Free” Health Care News http://www.davehitt.com/blog2/free-health-care-news/ The Only Blog That Gets You Smartenized® Sun, 05 Sep 2010 14:13:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Hittman http://www.davehitt.com/blog2/free-health-care-news/comment-page-1/#comment-1232 Hittman Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:17:54 +0000 http://www.davehitt.com/blog2/2008/03/31/free-health-care-news/#comment-1232 We don't have a free market for health care in the US. Half the medical bills are paid for by the government, and most of the other half are paid for by insurance companies. In either case there is no incentive for the end user to shop for the best price/value. I just released a podcast last night (http://www.davehitt.com/podcasts/) that discusses it, and a way to bring the free market back to health care. The title of the episode is "Healthy Savings." Most of the solutions proposed in the Quick Hitts podcast have absolutely no chance of really happening, but this one is all ready on it's way, and just might make it through of Big Pharma and the medical establishment doesn't succeed in derailing it. We don’t have a free market for health care in the US. Half the medical bills are paid for by the government, and most of the other half are paid for by insurance companies. In either case there is no incentive for the end user to shop for the best price/value.

I just released a podcast last night (http://www.davehitt.com/podcasts/) that discusses it, and a way to bring the free market back to health care. The title of the episode is “Healthy Savings.”

Most of the solutions proposed in the Quick Hitts podcast have absolutely no chance of really happening, but this one is all ready on it’s way, and just might make it through of Big Pharma and the medical establishment doesn’t succeed in derailing it.

]]> By: Tom http://www.davehitt.com/blog2/free-health-care-news/comment-page-1/#comment-1229 Tom Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:35:12 +0000 http://www.davehitt.com/blog2/2008/03/31/free-health-care-news/#comment-1229 The US has not been able to practice or implement free-market ideas. The government has found a way to get into it somehow and muck it up every time. Regulation are always used as an excuse for protecting someone. The problem is that that protection is sometimes the problem. Sometimes thing need to go bad so that something better will come out of it. Now I am willing to experiment with socialized medicine if it were state run. Federally run socialized medicine would be unconstitutional and direct monies where they do not belong. State run medicine would give me the voter and citizen of that state more power on if and how it would be implemented. The US has not been able to practice or implement free-market ideas. The government has found a way to get into it somehow and muck it up every time.
Regulation are always used as an excuse for protecting someone. The problem is that that protection is sometimes the problem. Sometimes thing need to go bad so that something better will come out of it.

Now I am willing to experiment with socialized medicine if it were state run. Federally run socialized medicine would be unconstitutional and direct monies where they do not belong. State run medicine would give me the voter and citizen of that state more power on if and how it would be implemented.

]]> By: Ilya http://www.davehitt.com/blog2/free-health-care-news/comment-page-1/#comment-1218 Ilya Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:51:11 +0000 http://www.davehitt.com/blog2/2008/03/31/free-health-care-news/#comment-1218 "but the fact that the USSR and China did it so badly isn’t a good enough one." "Free-market capitalism has done crap for, for instance, Brazil." good one. OH WAIT IT'S APRIL FIRST. one thing i learned from that article is that apparently in the UK 911 is 999. i think that's a better system, it's easier to dial in high-pressure situations. “but the fact that the USSR and China did it so badly isn’t a good enough one.”
“Free-market capitalism has done crap for, for instance, Brazil.”
good one. OH WAIT IT’S APRIL FIRST.

one thing i learned from that article is that apparently in the UK 911 is 999. i think that’s a better system, it’s easier to dial in high-pressure situations.

]]> By: Dan Pearson http://www.davehitt.com/blog2/free-health-care-news/comment-page-1/#comment-1215 Dan Pearson Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:54:39 +0000 http://www.davehitt.com/blog2/2008/03/31/free-health-care-news/#comment-1215 Communism is not viable for a number of reasons, but the fact that the USSR and China did it so badly isn't a good enough one. Similarly, there's a lot to be said for nationalized health care, just not the way the UK has been done. Free-market capitalism has done crap for, for instance, Brazil. Poor implementation should not be mistaken for a poor concept. Pure socialized medicine might be weak, but a mix of socialized and privatized medicine can help cover everybody's bases without pulling the rug out from those whose bases are already covered. Communism is not viable for a number of reasons, but the fact that the USSR and China did it so badly isn’t a good enough one.
Similarly, there’s a lot to be said for nationalized health care, just not the way the UK has been done.
Free-market capitalism has done crap for, for instance, Brazil. Poor implementation should not be mistaken for a poor concept. Pure socialized medicine might be weak, but a mix of socialized and privatized medicine can help cover everybody’s bases without pulling the rug out from those whose bases are already covered.

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