Comments on: Health Care Reform – How about we look at root causes?

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Thu, 25 Mar 2010 12:38:22 +0000

[...] payer in health care all the way down to checkups has also heavily inflated prices. Read my post on root causes of the health care crisis to see why health care costs are so [...]

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Senate Passes Health-Care Bill | The Proud Profiteer — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:11:43 +0000

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How free is government health care? | The Proud Profiteer — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:13:06 +0000

[...] I said in my previous blog, the economics of health care is suffering from price being hidden from the end consumer. Because [...]

By: Jason Vanzin

Jason Vanzin — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:16:05 +0000

Agreed, it was the creation of the employers to begin with, but then as all things that start off in the private sector, the Government decides they need to get involved and promote it to more people. They do this of course by picking winners and losers via the tax code. If the government would stay out of the private sector, these things would work themselves out.

I’m not sure your argument really makes sense since you are conceding the fact that the market is distorted because price is hidden from the end consumer. How can you then say, that having a huge Government option would help. Even if the public option isn’t in the bill, although we know it will be some how, it doesn’t matter because government is going to coerce the private sector into providing more health insurance, and thus driving up demand.

Also, you basically say the free market had it’s chance, but that isn’t true when half of health care spending is through medicare and medicaid. You know that drives up demand and costs astronomically?

For some reason, statists always blame capitalism, just like Michael Moore in his new movie, but you aren’t even talking about capitalism.

I will put out the steps I think we need to take shortly. Bush actually started us down the right path with the HSAs, but as with everything else, he never sold it.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:54:09 +0000

Excellent analysis. As a democrat and someone in health care, I agree with your factual assessment of the perversities in health care economics. I suggest these perversities are a creation of the free market. Businesses began to offer health insurance to compete for workers. Employer-based health care became an integral feature of the US economic model. It is the prime reason why price signals are suppressed in health care.
Do you suggest doing away with employer-based health care? Do you think any solution must include mandatory insurance coverage? Do you think drastic changes such as these are politically possible?
You oversimplify the solutions currently I’m the table as “government takeover of health care.” president Obama made clear that a public option is not the focus of reform, but rather a means to an end. Until the free marketeers suggest real alternatives, the legislation on the table will reflect the liberal solutions (after having given the free market a good long ride).