Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger problem than corporate taxes

Re:Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger proble... by chimeracoder on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @09:20AM (#14299737)

> Because waiting lists imply shortage or rationing. Here this is not the case. It is mostly optimization of utilization of existing capacity.

Call it what you want, but that is literally rationing a scarce resources

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Re:Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger proble... by panzer_wyrm on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @09:49AM (#14299941)

Scarce resources are kidneys. There are not enough of them to go around. Not all people that need kidneys will get them in any time frame. They are also rationed - you get one kidney transplant and that's it.

On the other hand the people that need lets say hip replacement will get it. The system have enough capacity and budget to serve their medical needs. But it works better if the people are properly spaced.

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Re:Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger proble... by dagw on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @10:20AM (#14300199)

But it works better if the people are properly spaced.

So (excepting some triage) they put people on a _list_ of people that need hip replacements and make them _wait_ until they get to the front of the list before they get their surgery.

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