Re:Many See I.R.S. Penalties as More Affordable Than Health ...
by rdtsc on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @02:24AM
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> Should this also be the case for food, housing, and cell phones? If not, why?
Because the heart transplant for your child, or elderly care of your mom, or your cancer treatment is not like a cell phone. Or is it? It is for me at least. Is that something that needs to be explained?
Single payer systems are not hypothetical utopia / sci-fi scenarios. This is already happening in many countries where people are happier and live longer.
Do you have any examples where healthcare regulated like cell phones with a good outcome?
Surely if it is such a great system, someone would have stumbled on it.
I have examples of where it is regulated like the cell phone and it doesn't work -- pretty much any third world country where regulatory agencies are practically not functional. There you go to to the doctor to get a shot of antibiotic, instead you get a shot of saline. Because antiobiotic shots cost money. Etc.
Because the heart transplant for your child, or elderly care of your mom, or your cancer treatment is not like a cell phone. Or is it? It is for me at least. Is that something that needs to be explained?
Single payer systems are not hypothetical utopia / sci-fi scenarios. This is already happening in many countries where people are happier and live longer.
Do you have any examples where healthcare regulated like cell phones with a good outcome?
Surely if it is such a great system, someone would have stumbled on it.
I have examples of where it is regulated like the cell phone and it doesn't work -- pretty much any third world country where regulatory agencies are practically not functional. There you go to to the doctor to get a shot of antibiotic, instead you get a shot of saline. Because antiobiotic shots cost money. Etc.