At 03:26 PM Wednesday 10/29/2008, Jon Louis Mann wrote: > > > > How do we prevent such a system from > > > > degenerating to the lowest quality of > > > > service it possibly can get away with? > > > > . . . ronn! :) > > > >we should not assume that will happen because some > > nations with > > >national health can't afford the kind of R&D > > available in the > > >richest country in the world. > > > No, we have examples here of things where there is no > > competition or > > they have to take everyone regardless of ability to pay the > > bill, > > like the ones I listed. (Nothing to do with R&D but > > with simply > > getting seen and getting adequate care.) If we get > > one-size-fits-all > > health care, how do we insure that it does not degrade like > > many other things already have? > > . . . ronn! :) > >true enough, that's another reason why health care delivery systems >MUST be reformed, and eliminating the middleman frees up a lot of >cash for the end user. all we can do it find something better than >what we have, now.
But like "random mutations" in biology, "change" for change's sake is more often detrimental rather than beneficial. And the government has a rather poor track record of having things improve once they take over. So even if we agree that the current system needs fixing, some of us see all the ways it could be made worse and want to know while it is being improved in the areas it needs improvement it is not also made worse in other areas, resulting in the overall result being no better or even worse than the current system? . . . ronn! :) _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
