> Dana wrote: > Here's what the New England Journal of Medicine thinks.... >
No, it's what Dr. Hacker, a professor of political science at Yale University, thinks. And his mistake is this line: "the best step may be to require employers either to provide their workers with good private coverage" (1.) Why would we require employers to do anything? Why not require them to pay us all a bazillion dollars? That would work just as well. (2.) Where would "good private coverage" come from if there's no incentive for anyone to control costs? He does make a good point about Medicare, though. And they do try to control costs. For example, they just created a policy to deny payment to hospitals for their mistakes. And the funny thing about that move is that it's a step in the direction of consumer driven health care: put the financial incentive to hospitals to make patients healthy. Remember regulated airlines? How'd that work out? Same fix works here: get the gov't out and consumers in. Prices will drop, quality will go up, and choice will be rampant. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:241145 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
