Who Supports the War(s)

[hermit22]

Originally posted by Radar


Yes, people with health insurance are more likely to see a doctor every time they get the sniffles. And they keep the hospitals crowded and force the price of medical care up.

I'd rather they caught that case of crabs when they first noticed the little buggers crawling around. Seriously, though, preventing a disease, or catching it in its infant stages, is a much better approach than trying to deal with it later, when you've already spread it, and the treatment has to be harsher. You know - that whole ounce of prevention line.

The free market never fails to provide the best products and services at the lowest cost.

Oh, like the recording industry? How about the software biz?

he reason health care costs have gone up isn't because of the free market, but because of government intervention. The most expensive health care on earth are in the most socialist and communist nations.

When you're dealing with something like people's lives, I don't think you can focus entirely on the cost. You need to focus on the effects - who has the healthier citizens. That would be a nearly impossible survey to conduct, because how would you account for all the variables in society - people's diet and exercise habits, etc?

I think that at this point the choice is between which system offers the most benefits. Each one offers a level of services to all people; the difference is where that level begins. I believe that level should not be 0 (as it is now), but it should be set at a reasonable level to discourage overuse and bad behavior, and not discourage universal health. I'll be the first to admit, however, that I have no idea what that level is.