Rudy Giuliani - Market-Based Healthcare Reform

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Former mayor of New York City and current Republican Presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani discusses his views on healthcare reform.

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New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani spoke of reinvention, reinvigoration, and strategies to bring greater freedom to Americans when he spoke on Monday at a meeting of the Hoover Institution Board of Overseers in Washington, D.C.

Complimenting the Hoover Institution on its mission and work, Guiliani told the 250 overseers and guests in attendance that "[Hoover] had made it possible for a whole new way of looking at government. You have given us intellectual depth and created change in the way we look at the interplay between government and the private sector."

Giuliani discussed the need for the Republican Party to remake and redefine itself in order to meet the challenges of the 21st century.

"In redefining ourselves, we have to give people more freedom," he said.

He also discussed at length the careful and strategic management of taxation, education reforms, and entitlement reforms, all of which can and should provide greater freedom to citizens, he said. - Hoover Institution

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[joshfultondotblogspo]

How many people leave American for surgery? A lot. In 2007, it was estimated to be 750,000. In 2008, it was 1.5m. Why? Not because we have bad doctors here, but because we're so expensive.

Get a clue, Rudy.

[Wilone328]

Voters voices need to be shouted! Do you believe in Barak's new health Care plan?? Go over to my tube profile to see exactly why Americas points of view matters !

[1000101er]

I wish there was a hospital cashier. The major problem with our system is that all the payments are made by third parties (a few big insurance companies and the federal government).

If people paid cash for more health products and services, providers would have an incentive to provide price and results transparency, which in turn would lead to competition. With competition would come lower costs, lower prices, and better outcomes.

Our current system is the worst of both worlds.

[1000101er]

Profits just mean that people are willing to pay more for a good than it costs to make (which is good: we shouldn't produce something if the cost exceeds what people are willing to pay for it).

In a competitive market economic profit tends toward zero. Health care in the US is not very competitive, but if you confiscated the profits of all the hospitals, insurance companies, etc and put the money back into the system, you would only pay for FOUR DAYS worth of American health care per year.

[a3bora]

americans, keep your health care system as it is but don't complain later when are face to face with HOSPITAL CASHIER!

[fezthepirate]

Profit for HealthCare is normal. Capitalism isn't solely based on profit though...it drives ingenuity. Half of our health care cost is for technological advancement.

[NWforager]

not completely true a3bora. i think 'greed before People via healthcare' is unfair. Rudy skates past 'Medical Tourism' and risks we take because we Can Not afford what is offered.