Chuck Grimes wrote:
>At least part of the problem with healthcare reform discussions, is
>they focus on the individual recipient, rather than on the service
>delivery systems. The essential problem is the system not the
>person. Notice that the usual way to kill healthcare reform is drive
>discussions into a corner over `ballooning' costs, as if the
>individual's health and desire is the issue. But the ballooning costs
>are being driven by the existing system's unlimited profit taking
>schemes, not the individual's health problems or their presumed
>unlimited desires to be put under the knife. We haven't suddenly
>gotten sicker or developed some strange taste for expensive
>procedures. The system has gotten sicker and developed an un-strange
>profit making taste for more exotic procedures. The chronic disease
>driving up medical care costs is profit.
>
Yes. Absolutely. Medical care is portrayed as a market good. Like, I get
up in the morning and I say to myself, gee what should I buy today? A
new bra? Or a triple bypass?
What they are asserting is that if medicine were socialized, some mornings, I would opt for the triple bypass.
Oh,....my, that does feel good.
Joanna
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