Comments on: The Winner of the Health Care Policy Thread

By: Arnie Kriegbaum

Arnie Kriegbaum — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:30:59 +0000

Doctors are just as lazy as we let them be

By: Lord

Lord — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:01:57 +0000

It is the cost of developing and learning what works on the expectation that eventually the cost becomes minor. Enough people want to live forever to make this politically viable.

By: Andrew'

Andrew' — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 14:50:59 +0000

So, I need some drugs that I know I need. I am required to get assessed for about $600, then the drugs and re-assessments, prescriptions, etc. How much will it cost to get a tiny little chemical I know I need? Why does it cost this much?

This is the kind of ____ we are actually talking about. Emergency services are trivial, and hopeless cancer treatments are irrelevant in that everyone knows they should not be allowed to bankrupt everyone.

By: Lord

Lord — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 13:44:57 +0000

Few think anyone should die from a treatable condition for lack of money. That’s what it means to be a necessity rather than a luxury. It is the division between necessity and luxury that is difficult, and necessity needs some value placed on it to make it essential, not just desired. Those are social judgments.

By: Andrew'

Andrew' — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 07:56:24 +0000

Why isn’t there a functioning Healthcare loan market?

By: kingstu

kingstu — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 18:08:29 +0000

I really want free government so all politicians should work for free.

By: Andrew'

Andrew' — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:37:37 +0000

The worst part of life is overhearing a civilian talk about their insurance.

But on the other hand, every time someone says “there is no way Joe six pack can deal with the complexity of healthcare” I think about how people love talking about their personal problems from a zillion different angles to figure it out.

By: Tom Cooper

Tom Cooper — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:29:23 +0000

PJ O’Rourke said something like, “We have a constitutional right to get someone else to pay when we want to go to the doctor.”

By: Andrew'

Andrew' — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:38:02 +0000

IMHO, It doesn’t need to shrink, it needs to shift. I asked my doctor who was my spouse’s family doctor and I was new to at the time about nutrition. He said “don’t worry about that, I have never seen a single person with a nutrient deficiency.” Not long later he prescribed my Father-in-Law vitamin D. I asked him about cancer and said don’t worry about it. I stopped asking, but I don’t expect a refund if I get cancer or have a nutrient deficiency.

By: asdf

asdf — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:27:24 +0000

If healthcare is 1/6 of our economy, 1/6 of our society and anyone else connected to that 1/6 will never tolerate it shrinking.