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Given a choice between health care reform and a tax hike or no health care reform and no tax hike, 47% would prefer to avoid the tax hike and do without reform. Forty-one percent (41%) take the opposite view.....Rasmussen Reports: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Data Anywhere
Given a choice between health care reform and a tax hike or no health care reform and no tax hike, 47% would prefer to avoid the tax hike and do without reform. Forty-one percent (41%) take the opposite view.....Rasmussen Reports: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Data Anywhere
No reform will be as bad if not worse than a tax hike as healthcare costs and spending will continue to spiral out of control. Everyone is so worried about how much it costs now that they don't even ponder how much it will cost tomorrow. We have become some of the most short sighted people in the world. It truly is amazing how far we have dropped.
Given a choice between health care reform and a tax hike or no health care reform and no tax hike, 47% would prefer to avoid the tax hike and do without reform. Forty-one percent (41%) take the opposite view.....Rasmussen Reports: The Most Comprehensive Public Opinion Data Anywhere
No reform will be as bad if not worse than a tax hike as healthcare costs and spending will continue to spiral out of control. Everyone is so worried about how much it costs now that they don't even ponder how much it will cost tomorrow. We have become some of the most short sighted people in the world. It truly is amazing how far we have dropped.
Instead, health costs reflect the distortions that government regulators have introduced through reimbursement mechanisms created by command-and-control bureaucracies at federal and state levels.
Simply put, Medicare, Medicaid, workers compensation, HMOs and even private health-insurance firms that follow Medicare rates, rely on cost reports submitted by providers. This cost data is then pushed through mathematical models and additional data generated by government, such as inflation and regional-labor-cost modifiers, to unilaterally (or in agreement with lobbyists and industry groups) determine what the prices for services should be.
But it is theoretically and practically impossible for a bureaucrat no matter how accurate the cost data, how well intentioned and how sophisticated his computer program to come up with the correct and just price. The just price of a health service can only be determined by the voluntary exchange of a patient with his hospital, physician, and pharmacist. The relationship between the patient and his private provider has been corrupted by the intrusion of government and its intermediaries (HMOs, for example) to such an extent that we can no longer speak of a relationship that can produce meaningful pricing information.
Given the level of technological advance and capital investment in healthcare of the past 40 years, one would expect quality to increase and prices to come down relative to other goods and services. This is true of other capital-intensive industries like consumer electronics and air travel. But in healthcare we have the opposite phenomenon: higher prices and, at best, equal or slightly improved quality in some locations or, at worst, lower quality in other locations, particularly government owned institutions. And too few consider that perhaps government participation is to blame.
