http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2009/07/02/do-you-favor-government-run-health-care Comments On: Do You Favor Government-Run Health Care? by Pete Kotz en-us Copyright 2013 Nashville Scene. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Nashville Scene readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Nashville Scene. wil@desert.net (Nashville Scene Webmaster) Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:00:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Jim Trinidad]]> Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:17:23 -0500 Nashville Scene Unfortunately, it's even worse than that.
Posted by BoydBBiggs]]> Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:09:05 -0500 Nashville Scene I don't have a lot of time today to come back to this, but I do want to briefly address your points, in the order you made them:
1. When I was talking about how big pharma and insurance companies have changed healthcare, I wasn't talking about eliminating them.
Posted by BoydBBiggs]]> Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:58:10 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by peter]]> Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:00:45 -0500 Nashville Scene A few points:
1) Without big pharma and the insurance industry both public and private health care would look different. They might even look worse.
Posted by Mark Rogers]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:56:59 -0500 Nashville Scene My Republican Senator from NH, Judd Gregg, believes that private health care is the American way, and should be run for profit. He also says the government shouldn't compete because it's not fair.
Posted by Gary]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:26:15 -0500 Nashville Scene I disagree.
I think the concept of anything being an entitlemnet at all in the first place is the root of the problem.
The social security retirement system is also a big mess and it has nothing to do with healthcare costs.
"Besides, what makes you think Medicare involves more of a "something for nothing" than private health insurance?"
Because absent government invlovement/mandates, the assumption of risk is a voluntary transaction by both parties entering into the insurance contract. In a free market system insurance would be priced on the individual risk of the insured at the time the policy was purchased.
Posted by Gilbert Martin]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:32:02 -0500 Nashville Scene First, there's politics in every aspect of healthcare TODAY -- so it would be hardly surprising that politics would continue to play a role in healthcare even with greater federal involvement. I realize your point is that politics would get worse, and maybe it would.
Posted by BoydBBiggs]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:06:42 -0500 Nashville Scene Granted that there are many examples of excellent VA care, it is also true that many VA hospitals serve very small patient populations. However it is politically impossible to close such facilities, regardless of the costs.
That is a helpful reminder that the greater the federal government's share of health care and the greater its control, the more that politics rather than markets will dominate.
Posted by Mark Rogers]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:13:02 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by BoydBBiggs]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:07:40 -0500 Nashville Scene US Healthgroup that care about the insured and try to make sure everyone has insurance coverage they need, and at a lesser cost than Washington is pitching.
Posted by Sponsored Comment]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:56:20 -0500 Nashville Scene Most people do like to get stuff that is mostly being paid for by somebody else.
That doesn't make it a viable system.
Posted by Gilbert Martin]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:38:30 -0500 Nashville Scene Like Kotz's original claim that public health care's admininstrative costs are lower than the private sector - which is flat out wrong.
And all the phony squealing about the "crisis" of the 43 M uninsured people.
And the Obama administration's BS about health care "reform" being necesseary to "fix" the economy. The recession and the financial credit freeze weren't caused by healthcare expenses and "reform" won't have anything to do with "fixing" it.
You liberals can keep tap dancing and spinning around about healthcare all you want.
The fact is that Medicare and Medicaid are abject fiscal failures.
Posted by Gilbert Martin]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:36:32 -0500 Nashville Scene I don't know why my comments over here end up in a black hole awaiting "blog owner's approval"
The system does that automatically when a commenter embeds via HTML, I believe, more than one link (a comment spam preventive measure, presumably). It does that to me, it does it to everyone.
Posted by bb]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:10:02 -0500 Nashville Scene The VA System has indeed been plagued by some serious quality problems.
Posted by BoydBBiggs]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:14:03 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by Pete Kotz]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:11:16 -0500 Nashville Scene on my blog many times.
I want healthcare while Washington is focused on health insurance. We aren't even debating the same thing anymore.
Posted by Southern Beale]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:09:46 -0500 Nashville Scene many times, most western countries offer public healthcare with a private option, while we're debating doing it back-asswards. The other problem, which I've stated many, many times, is that progressives want healthcare while Washington is focused on health insurance.
Posted by Southern Beale]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:07:42 -0500 Nashville Scene Just like the VA Hospital. Now there a shining example of quality care using taxpayer dollars efficiently.
Yes, never let facts get in the way of a groundless assertion.
Posted by bb]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:42:30 -0500 Nashville Scene Uh Huh.
Just like the VA Hospital.
Now there a shining example of quality care using taxpayer dollars efficiently.
LOL
Posted by Gilbert Martin]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:25:06 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by BoydBBiggs]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 10:01:35 -0500 Nashville Scene Posted by Gilbert Martin]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 09:24:48 -0500 Nashville Scene And you don't think Blue Cross is doing the same? Really!
Posted by apokeintheeye]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:46:00 -0500 Nashville Scene http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/06/27/the_adminstrative_cost_benefit_myth_97193.html
Posted by Gilbert Martin]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:41:28 -0500 Nashville Scene "Owe a debt"?
Explain to me why anyone "owes" it to anyone else to subsidize their healthcare costs in any way to begin with.
Posted by Gilbert Martin]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:13:06 -0500 Nashville Scene