How to Fix Health Care: Lasik Surgery For The Medical Debate

Make no mistake about it. Health care reform is coming. But what's the best way to fix our health care system, which is an inefficient, complicated mess of private actors, third-party payers, public subsidies, and innumerable state and federal regulations? Should we place our faith in the government or in the free market?

ObamaCare supporters argue that the answer lies in more government—more subsidies, more regulations, a law mandating individuals buy health-insurance coverage and, of course, more taxes to pay for it all.

The alternative is to base reforms on what works in the other five-sixths of the U.S. economy, where choice and competition increase quality and drive down prices over time.

Can a market-based health care system work? We can begin to answer this question by looking at Lasik, a medical procedure that's not covered by health insurance. And has gotten better—and cheaper—over time.

"How to Fix Health Care" proposes three simple reforms that will put us on a path to a health-care system that's better, more affordable, and more accessible. And get this—these market-based reforms can be implemented without creating new government programs or raising taxes.

Approximately 8.30 minutes. Produced by Paul Feine and Meredith Bragg. Hosted by Nick Gillespie.

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[spanishaustralian]

You can not beat free market capitalism. the best system ever devised by man.

[org1152]

i say abolish health insurance all together then...why is there a middleman at all?

[felpaluche]

Great tech.

[rrp1973]

@beancube2010 I love how you lefties frame the argument. If you are opposed to government involvement in X you are anti X. Is that what you think? We don't want any hospitals or doctors to exist? As for the lobbyists, that is a problem of government power, not lack of it. If the government simply enforced property rights/contracts as it was intended to do, the lobbyists would have to go back home and get real jobs.

[TonikHealthInsurance]

nice information...! thanks for upload this video...!

[dolphinsattack]

The vast majority of experts in the Medical Field i.e. Doctors, Nurses, Surgeons, Physical Therapists are against a Govt take over of Healthcare, they don't want Govt getting in between them and the patient that's why most Doctors prefer a free market consumer bases system on how to purchase Medical care. Doctors also don't want to take over a 50% pay cut under a Govt take over. Liberals have no problem with govt employees making $300,000 year but whine when Doctors make a lot of money.

[dolphinsattack]

The only people today really pushing a Govt take over of Healthcare aren't the medical professionals, it's far leftists, usually Liberal youth on the internet between the ages of 14 to 23 where they are in that far lefti rebel stage in life or wanting to explore and experience new things and are easily manipulated by Hollywood, Bill Maher and George Soros to feel "trendy" and want to fit in with the LA and Manhattan crowd to want to be "accepted" so they take up these unoriginal causes.

[dolphinsattack]

2nd Admendment? Well most African Nations have gun control, why doesn't it work there? Next time someone breaks into your home and goes after you or a loved one with a weapon then let them abuse or kill you, don't fight back, maybe if you call 911 the Cops might make it there in less than 15 minutes. But how come Healthcare doesn't work in Brazil and Mexico since they have more incommon with the U.S. Demographically and Culturally than any other Nation does? It's failing in Canada and UK.

[KStealed]

@dolphinsattack US has millions of Blacks and Hispanics killing each other and others because of your beloved second amendment.

A: money dedicated to warfare

B: money dedicated to healthcare

As long as A>B, no matter how hard you try to disguise the numbers, the people will keep dying in hospital's waiting rooms all over the US because they got no money to pay their bill. The math is this simple

[dolphinsattack]

A proper free market system works better than corrupt govt does, Surgeons in the UK are complaining about the wait time for people to get surgeries, the NHS in the UK is a disaster... bbc.co.uk/news/health-12964360

[dolphinsattack]

Which EU nation has millions of Blacks and Hispanics killing each other and others? Which EU nation has the U.S. culture and demographics? Norway has 5 million people and is 96% white, Northern Ireland is 98% White. Socialists never take demographics into account. Healthcare is a misleading term, the proper term is: "Medical Payments," because that is all coverage is, it's about "WHO PAYS YOUR DOCTORS BILLS." and it does't make people live longer, just passes the bills off to others.

[beancube2010]

We, the GOP, pro-life and pro-lies, but not pro health care. We all hate politics, don't we? Universal health care is the only way that no more political manipulation and lobbyists costs adding into our consumption.