Health Care: You Are Not the Customer (David Goldhill)

this guy is so far off the mark its unbelievable. Free health care at the point of receiving it should be a basic right for all people in the entire world. A persons health is far too important to be left to the ravages of the so called "free market".
i Honestly can't see why anyone left or right wing would say that this is not an ideal worth aiming for.

You cant see why? ill tell you why.

Money.

stupid fucking communist

leave my country

You telling people to leave doesnt make you an american, it makes you stupid.

Why wouldn't 'Food & Shelter' be considered an entitlement before medicine... where's their priorities?
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Additional premiums to cover theoretical increases in premiums at a later date. With insurance companies at both ends determining costs, where should I expect the reduction to come from? What about hard working families that are living paycheck to paycheck? The industry has either been unable or unwilling to control costs over time. I pay 3 times more for health insurance now than I did 10 years ago and I do not have any better coverage. Why can't they compete with the govt?

No, I am not contradictory. While what you say is true, it does provide incentive to get insurance prior to developing some issue or another, but you are unable to leave the current provider since no other company will cover you. I held your opinion before I found myself without a job due to layoffs and couldn't afford the Cobra for 9 months. I could only imagine what would happen if someone developed an illness that lasted for the remainder of their lives.

@T33Bon35 that is not what that said at all.
It premise is throwing money at something fixes nothing and health insurance should only cover big operations. (IE u got cancer, by pass surgery etc)
So general doctor visits should be payed out of pocket by all , etc etc. Minor tests pocket etc, and this would drive down costs. He is correct also, im not sure if its the most healthy thing to do but as far as cost go it drop them down to a 1/4 of the current price.

health care is not what we need. besides the guy looks like he's somewhere in between 50 and 60 years old... his dad was most likely around 70 to 80 years old... that means there is very little that they could do to help the poor guy: for being that old, you will not react the same a younger person would to medications, your most likely to get sick at that age for you would have a lower immune system. so he cant argue that. he's literally beating a dead horse.

You are ignoring the fact that people live longer now than they used to.
Prior to the 20th Century a patient with Diabetes Mellitus would not live longer than 15 years or so. Now they can live a full life. So these patients live longer, but now we know about all sorts of related problems- that cost money. High blood pressue is now treated when it used to be considered just a symptom of aging. Treatments cost money. Just two of many examples.