Dear President Obama: Here's a Health Care Plan For Ya!

In "The Undercover Economist", economist-writer Tim Harford outlines a national health care plan that makes an awful lot of sense. Here's an excerpt.

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[forestskog]

John Stossel made the point that what you describe is very similar to how normal car insurance works. If you get a small fender bender costing 500$ you don't claim it on your insurance you pay yourself bc otherwise your insurance premiums will go up forever. car insurance is used for more "catastrophic"damage to the car. this keeps the incentives on the car owner to be more carefulo but stil ensures he will be protected from huge $ loss in a big crash

[TheLogicJunkie]

And I personally think that system makes a lot more sense. I think it would make an excellent health care plan, if America should decide to go that route.

[noonesflower]

If tax were put to what it justly should be put, that is, necessary public services such as health services instead of , say, wars, then taxes wouldn't have to be exorbitant anyway and the paying of taxes would be tantamount to the savings account that the guy in the book is suggesting.The reason we get catastrophic health care costs is because health care is being carried out for profit and not because human beings need it. Price control on all things medical is desirable in civil society.

[jacobdesign1987]

The healthcare plan he outlines already exists in Singapore, which he says in the book. It would be interesting to see how this works in practice.

[TheLogicJunkie]

Now THAT I am definitely going to read.

[openuniverse2003]

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[Whistlejocket]

Reserect this topic please the answer is simple...it has to be a socialized system. First, the gov. bills the people say $85/month for a 5 member family and about $25 a person. Everyone pays unless too poor to pay then free. It is ok to support your brother because he will support you. Government decides the billing costs, but the better the doctor you are the more cash you get. Remember that the gov. is the people, the people pay so they hire the gov. to oversee costs.

[ZullGostnu]

When you stand naked in front of a mirror, are you fat? Fat people are actually starving to death. They don't digest their food. Sugar is readily absorbed, not needing to be digested. Without sugar, fat people would truly starve. Or they would learn how and what to eat.

[ZullGostnu]

People already take responsibility without insurance. What we eat and how we eat is a fundamental reason for disease and illness. It is assumed, what you eat is digested and absorbed. Medicine can not prove, only assume, you digest food. You are alive, you must be digesting food. Undigested food is poisonous, causing the disease and illness to break heath care costs.

Banks can fail, robbing you of your "medical" savings account.

[observationmode]

you sound like a scorpio. i stopped believing in satan years ago when i got out of the christian cult (my first cult to get out of) and then found out that the true translation of satan is simply 'wrong thinking' - its in one of those concordance books.