Is the overal health of the nations people a national security issue?
I think it is.
Ergo the question of a health delivery system that serves the citizens of this nation IS something that our governments need to monitor and regulate, too.
Now how they do that is the REAL question.
I am of the opinion that as long as we have a third party payment system (much of which is funded by taxes) feeding into the health care providers who are part of the PRIVATE SECTOR, the cost of HC is going to continue to rise much much faster than the overall inflation this nation faces.
So until the government takes over complete responsibility for paying for health care, and with that responsibility is the right to set pricing, too?
No system we can devise is going to serve us particularly well given the money we're investing in it.
In my lifetime the aggregate money spend on HC has gone from 4% of the GDP to over 17%.
That pehnomena is unsustainable and everybody who looks at this problem from a MACRO ECONOMIC point of view knows that to be the case.
There is no perfect solution to this problem.
There are only solutions that each come with probems associated with the manner in which we address this issue.
Single Payer universal health care insurance (SPUHCI) , for example, inevitably must control prices. And we ALL know that government mandated controlled prices leads to shortages of, or decines in the quality of the services or products whose prices are controlled.
Frankly I think SPUHCI is the LEAST WORST solution to this macro-economic problem.
It is flawed, yes, but flawed slightly less than what we've got (or are going to get) when the Obaman (formerly the Repubican) plan is implemented.
But please do note that I definitely do think that SPUHCI will create problems that will not EVER go away, either.
I think it is.
Ergo the question of a health delivery system that serves the citizens of this nation IS something that our governments need to monitor and regulate, too.
Now how they do that is the REAL question.
I am of the opinion that as long as we have a third party payment system (much of which is funded by taxes) feeding into the health care providers who are part of the PRIVATE SECTOR, the cost of HC is going to continue to rise much much faster than the overall inflation this nation faces.
So until the government takes over complete responsibility for paying for health care, and with that responsibility is the right to set pricing, too?
No system we can devise is going to serve us particularly well given the money we're investing in it.
In my lifetime the aggregate money spend on HC has gone from 4% of the GDP to over 17%.
That pehnomena is unsustainable and everybody who looks at this problem from a MACRO ECONOMIC point of view knows that to be the case.
There is no perfect solution to this problem.
There are only solutions that each come with probems associated with the manner in which we address this issue.
Single Payer universal health care insurance (SPUHCI) , for example, inevitably must control prices. And we ALL know that government mandated controlled prices leads to shortages of, or decines in the quality of the services or products whose prices are controlled.
Frankly I think SPUHCI is the LEAST WORST solution to this macro-economic problem.
It is flawed, yes, but flawed slightly less than what we've got (or are going to get) when the Obaman (formerly the Repubican) plan is implemented.
But please do note that I definitely do think that SPUHCI will create problems that will not EVER go away, either.
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