I favor a government financier in addition to private models to start with. The market has been warped enough that the classical small scale sticks and carrots seem to have been utterly ineffective over the course of decades. I'd wished it were otherwise and that a pure private market solution with government regulation would do the trick. But we've been trying that for a long long time and it has been a notable colossal failure.
That is just the beginning though. That takes care of some short term issues and helps both reframe the debate as well as deal with short term cost control. However, it does not address long term cost control, which is going to have to take on the current pay-per-procedure paradigm. Attacking health insurance reform is a first, necessary, step. All the stuff we need to tackle after that will have a substantial influence on what health care looks like in 30 years, so I can't say that a public option is anything more than a good idea for the next 10 years while we figure out everything else. It very well might go away. It will change. How? A fine question and one to take a look at on many more discussions. Judah On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:27 PM, Gruss Gott <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Judah wrote: >>>> Reading some about the founder of neo-conservatism - Irving kristol - >>>> I find it ironic that despite his changing everything and bringing >>>> Reagan to power, his movement destroyed itself and is back to where he >>>> started. >>> >>> I don't think so. >> >> You don't think. > > So, Sammy. Out of pure curiosity ... I'm curious where you stand on > healthcare. Take Judah and I: > > We agree it's desperately needed, but (Judah correct me) while Judah > favors a governmental financier over private models, I favor > government market definition and regulation. But, again, we both > violently agree that reform is needed. > > How about you? What's your take to the following questions: > > (1.) Is there a problem? > > (2.) If there is, what are key next solution steps? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:305080 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
