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

Mr. Goldhill makes so much sense. The concept of insurance is so distorted by govt playing to our fears. Despite working in healthcare I was unecessarily exposed exposed to a radioactive iodine test before finding from a specialist that it was unncessary, added no information to my diagnosis or treatment. However, I had insurance which covered it. In my ignorance I didn'tt question why it was done. It wasn't until I read on the internet about my disease that I found it was unnecessary.

Why not food and water insurance? Answer - we don't need it. Prices ensure that these things get to us. Why should it be different with health care?

You are making his point. We have treated health care as if it's so different from anything else that has costs and prices associated with it.

We can change the price of health care (for example, make it "free"), but there is no way to eliminate the COSTS.

Because it makes people poorer, less free and less healthy. Here in the UK we know this well enough. America has the chance not to go down the road we have and save its healthcare system instead of ruining it.

I also live in the UK. You can't seriously think their healthcare is better than ours. Why do you think they are trying to reform it to make it more like ours?

Because those drafting/supporting the bills going through Congress are as wrong-headed as most British politicians.

David Goldhill says "... hasn't occurred anywhere else in our economy," regarding healthcare unrelenting increases in cost. This isn't completely true. Two things in our economy fail to provide increases in economic efficiency with technological advancement. Healthcare and government have an insatiable appetite for private and public funds.

@tekany Health care has been undermined through government intervention so they could push socialized medicine on us.

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

You cant see why? ill tell you why.

Money.