On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Chris Gehlker <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand Jared's arguments as to why there is no nation where > people are actually willing to leave healthcare to the market but I > wish some country would actually try it
Why ? ...when it patently cannot provide any broad advantage ?... ...at least as long as it is insurance-based. >From the customer point of view it can only possibly significantly financially favour the extremely healthy (from an actuary's viewpoint lets take the top 20%) and it will almost never be advantageous for any kind of "family". It could, of course, also (like everything in this world) be financially acceptable for the super-wealthy who are not super-healthy. However everyone else has to pay either as much as in the social system, or over the odds in comparison to the non-private system. Its either that, and/or you keep the dividends and salaries so tight that there is no incentive for employees, or investors. Having said that, I could accept an actuarial component to national/public healthcare premiums for lifestyle risks. You want to smoke ? pay extra. You have alcohol linduced liver damage ? pay extra. You like extreme sports ? pay extra. Your bloodstream is full of narcotics ? pay extra. etc. Some other aspects are niggly since they can be associated with poverty where additional financial stress will produce a spiral of increasing healthcare costs. _______________________________________________ OSX-Nutters mailing list | [email protected] http://lists.tit-wank.com/mailman/listinfo/osx-nutters List hosted at http://cat5.org/
