yes but the New England Journal od Medicine published it. I dfind it interesting that a rather conservative industry publication would do that. And yes, I do realize that this paradigm offends your ideological stance on the subject ;)
On 8/22/07, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:241641 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
