Re:Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us
by joe_the_user on Thursday February 21, 2013 @04:08PM
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Who would have thought that taking health insurance away from the person and assigning it to the employer would lead here?
I would interject "who would think that a complex set of interlocking incentives would lead to improvements?" Who?
The whole arrangement seems like Ayn Rand's bad acid trip despite there being many articulate and intelligent people who have bought Coolaid, with and without personal gain involved.
Pile incentive on incentive till things are ready to break, rationally rearrange things up a bit till the process of exploiting perverse incentives takes hold again and things are once again ready to break.
And this situation "interesting" only from the outside. The intellectual irony is lost those dying or having their lives ruined.
A substantial portion of the country can see that marketization is simply something doesn't scale for medical care. State health care has pretty much been shown itself to be the only sensible way to organize health care in a modern industrialized society.
That won't take us there because the population of opportunists who make tremendous profits from exploiting the present perverse incentives is huge and they have essentially completed regulator capture and virtual state capture.
What will happen? It's mostly the relationship between a parasite and host. The parasite has an incentive to keep the host alive but an incentive to keep the host healthy. Sounds like the future.
I would interject "who would think that a complex set of interlocking incentives would lead to improvements?" Who?
The whole arrangement seems like Ayn Rand's bad acid trip despite there being many articulate and intelligent people who have bought Coolaid, with and without personal gain involved.
Pile incentive on incentive till things are ready to break, rationally rearrange things up a bit till the process of exploiting perverse incentives takes hold again and things are once again ready to break.
And this situation "interesting" only from the outside. The intellectual irony is lost those dying or having their lives ruined.
A substantial portion of the country can see that marketization is simply something doesn't scale for medical care. State health care has pretty much been shown itself to be the only sensible way to organize health care in a modern industrialized society.
That won't take us there because the population of opportunists who make tremendous profits from exploiting the present perverse incentives is huge and they have essentially completed regulator capture and virtual state capture.
What will happen? It's mostly the relationship between a parasite and host. The parasite has an incentive to keep the host alive but an incentive to keep the host healthy. Sounds like the future.