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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk
Potter has some hard evidence of this? I would suspect if this was found to be true said insurance company that was practicing this would be in a crap load of trouble. No? There is so much more than just insurance companies involved when it comes to the high cost of healthcare. There is malpractice insurance that do to people looking to retire early on tort cases involving doctors or a hospital. We have to remember, some of this is brought on by the patient and not just the hospitals/drug companies. All can not be pinned on Wall Street. The ENTIRE system needs an overhaul to be honest Mookie. Wall Street is just part of that overhaul.
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Tort reform has already happened in California and Texas. Back in 06 Texas capped malpractice claims at $250k against doctors and it has done nothing to stem the tide of rising healthcare costs. It's like you're throwing a cup of water on a house fire.
And it CAN all be pinned on he fact that these are FOR PROFIT companies acting to maximize their bottom lines.
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Originally Posted by TDK1044
They'll certainly start dying once health care rationing is imposed by the Government. And a rationing of healthcare is a certainty if the Obama plan reaches fruition.
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We already ration healthcare according to ability to pay.
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Milton Friedman’s beloved line is a good way to frame the issue: There is no such thing as a free lunch. The choice isn’t between rationing and not rationing. It’s between rationing well and rationing badly. Given that the United States devotes far more of its economy to health care than other rich countries, and gets worse results by many measures, it’s hard to argue that we are now rationing very rationally.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/bu...leonhardt.html