Re:Ask HN: How would you fix healthcare?
by apsurd on Friday July 03, 2009 @04:54PM
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Let's be clear on what problem it is you are talking about.
Healthcare being not-affordable, or in other words too-much for most citizens or in other words insurance being too much? Or maybe healthcare in the sense that we aren't healthy; needing less healthcare?
The question is too vague for me. If we are talking in terms of "sicko" (the documentary) then one solution I have to say is socialized healthcare. I don't feel that social healthcare is necessarily the same as just any other social industry. Therefore people should not react in the same way. Socializing the auto industry is terribly anti-capitalism but its not the same as health-care because there is (or should) be a moral obligation to help people in need regardless of their financial state. You can't morally need a new car. It might still be possible to have private hospitals, for "premium" treatment. That already sounds rather dirty, but it reminds me of the postal service. Having government-run postal service actually made the industry better as a whole. Everyone can send a letter for 42 cents is it? but if they want it there overnight, there's fedex.
The question is too vague for me. If we are talking in terms of "sicko" (the documentary) then one solution I have to say is socialized healthcare. I don't feel that social healthcare is necessarily the same as just any other social industry. Therefore people should not react in the same way. Socializing the auto industry is terribly anti-capitalism but its not the same as health-care because there is (or should) be a moral obligation to help people in need regardless of their financial state. You can't morally need a new car. It might still be possible to have private hospitals, for "premium" treatment. That already sounds rather dirty, but it reminds me of the postal service. Having government-run postal service actually made the industry better as a whole. Everyone can send a letter for 42 cents is it? but if they want it there overnight, there's fedex.