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Rachel, your $$ was taken from you and redistributed. Doesn't that make you feel warm and fuzzy?
Right. Now that my 62 year old husband and I (with a hysterectomy) are "covered" for pediatric dentistry and maternity care, don't think we don't know that all we're doing is paying for someone else's coverage.
And of course I know that insurance works that way - and I wouldn't have such a problem with it if we weren't also paying exorbitant monthly premiums and deductibles that make our heads spin.
Unless we manage to max out our $6750 each deductibles, we pay $1100 a month in premiums PLUS 100 percent of everything, every single month. It just gets tiresome.
And I just figured out that when I back out property taxes and insurance, yes, my monthly premium is higher than my mortgage payment.
Like when walmart and other orgs sent water to new orleans in the aftermath of katrina, and did so ahead of and in spite of the DHS?
So it will be when the state completes its takeover of health care re: shortages, rationing, poor quality of service, cronyism, etc.
How long have you lived in the states? Examples of this are all around.
like insulin prices quadrupling in the past 10 years. Lots of the dead people needed your pep talk about the beauty of the profit driven American healthcare. Just because somehow you enjoy better and cheaper subsidized access, it does not mean lots of people have it worse than in the third world.
Its no different than any other service. You've been bamboozled
From the article
"The medical industry exists almost entirely to serve people who have been rendered incapable of representing their own interests in an adversarial transaction. When I need health services I often need them in a way that is quite different from my desire for a good quality television or a fine automobile."
Market value of many sick people is negative zero to boot.
like insulin prices quadrupling in the past 10 years. Lots of the dead people needed your pep talk about the beauty of the profit driven American healthcare. Just because somehow you enjoy better and cheaper subsidized access, it does not mean lots of people have it worse than in the third world.
not a free market example. Thanks to patents and the FDA the supply is limited. For a relative example of free markets go to a grocery store and marvel at the number of choices a consumer has for laundry detergent, salad dressing, cereals...
Or visit an electronics outlet and shop computers, phones, televisions
It should be no different w/drugs in the marketplace.
Last edited by Frank DeForrest; 02-01-2020 at 05:02 PM..
"The medical industry exists almost entirely to serve people who have been rendered incapable of representing their own interests in an adversarial transaction. When I need health services I often need them in a way that is quite different from my desire for a good quality television or a fine automobile."
Market value of many sick people is negative zero to boot.
People are rendered incapable or put at a disadvantage because again your govt has limited the supply of choices
People are rendered incapable or put at a disadvantage because again your govt has limited the supply of choices
A sickness or an injury limits choices in the ways no government can. Abundance of choices of doctors does nothing to decrease prices, people do not get into health care biz to race to the bottom and provide affordable care, people get into biz to drive expensive cars and make $300+k/year regardless of supply and demands. And you cannot really shop around for care even if your health allows. It is all an expensive crapshoot. At the very best case you'll lose your money, not your health or life.
A sickness or an injury limits choices in the ways no government can. Abundance of choices of doctors does nothing to decrease prices, people do not get into health care biz to race to the bottom and provide affordable care, people get into biz to drive expensive cars and make $300+k/year regardless of supply and demands. And you cannot really shop around for care even if your health allows. It is all an expensive crapshoot. At the very best case you'll lose your money, not your health or life.
Doctors, nurses,x-ray techs, hospitals, clinics, etc. are not exempted from the laws of supply and demand.Its just a fact, or are you not a believer in science?
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