[lbo-talk] For-profit medicine

[Wojtek S]

[WS:] It seems that public insurance (such as Medicaid) is
insufficient to prevent this kind of abuse.  The root of the problem
is private service delivery - perhaps more so than private insurance.
According to a recent propaganda poster on the DC Metro, inscos
profits account for less than 5% of all medical cost - hospital and
doctor bills account for some 80 percent and drugs for 11% if memory
serves.

So the solution is the development of a public health care *delivery*
system - rather than a public health insurance.  And I mean public,
not just "nonprofit" - since most US hospitals are "nonprofit" i.e.
tax exempt.

-- 
Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."