On 16 Aug 2009 at 11:45, [email protected] wrote: > > > >FWIW the _Atlantic_ article is well worth reading carefully. I've > >already forwarded the link with my recommendation to a couple of > >other lists, and got a couple of comments back. > > The problems the article lists are real; I won't argue that the present > system is really messed up. However, the solution of having high > deductables has been tried; and the results are counterprodutive. People > under those conditions eschew paying for services until they reach crisis > porportions, then they go in. They gamble that things will get better on > their own, and if they lose, they only risk their deductable.
Exactly! Except very often, if they lose, they have problems which will allways plague them or at the least will take longer and be more difficult to cure. > before she went on to an even better hospital, and others who develop new > products and are frustrated with how hard it is to get them past > regulations and into use. To be fair, that problem is in no way limited to America. AndrewC _______________________________________________ http://mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
