> Scott wrote: > Carry on.... > So ...
You may have mentioned that you thought the concept of eliminating the variables to find the core problem doesn't work for healthcare. I tossed out this idea: Conjecture: ------------------- Insurance companies (inefficiency, fraud, etc) are the key problem with the US health care system. Test: eliminate the variable --------------------------------------- Nobody is required to buy insurance or admin services: not people, not companies, not the government. So what if they just stopped? Would the healthcare problem be solved? Answer ----------- No. Providers would still charge bills people can't afford except as a luxury. You wouldn't have even dented the problem and you lose even more people. Question ----------------- If we eliminate the variable and it only makes the problem worse, then how can the variable be the core problem? Observation ----------------- This is VERY similar to the airlines before de-regulation. The problem there - as is here - is that the market was improperly regulated which caused an imbalance in the service availability. 2nd Observation ---------------------- All any insurance is, is the buying and selling of risk. For example, if there is a natural disaster that wipes out every city should expect the "private market" to be able to pay for that? No. We'd declare a national disaster area. Insurance didn't CAUSE the natural disaster, it simply is not set up to pay for a problem that sudden and that large. Same is true for health care. US citizen health is a national disaster, it's just happened slowly over 30 years rather than right away like an earthquake. We need to government to step in and triage, but then step back and allow normal operations to resume. So government should step is, get everyone in the boat, regulate the market, and then step out. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:298568 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
