Best Article on Health Care That I've Read
by rrusczyk, Aug 16, 2009, 3:13 PM
Long, but worth it. Overlook the ridiculous title of the article -- nearly all articles entitled "How <country> health care killed my father" are garbage, but this one isn't.
Gives a thorough take-down of virtually all large parts of our health care system (hospitals, insurance, government), and offers a solution that's a hybrid of the typical right-wing position (keep the government out!) and the typical left-wing position (keep everyone but the government out!) that seems pretty close to right to me: nationalized disaster insurance, an end to comprehensive insurance, and HSAs. (Well, yeah, this would seem right to me, since it's what I do, minus the nationalized part, but this covers the issue of people getting bankrupted by healthcare when they can't afford insurance.)
Anyway, read the article if you're interested in health care. It's very long, but you'll get a pretty good picture of how the markets and the government have failed in health care. (Whether your view is that government has caused that failure in the markets, or markets have caused the failure of government, the article will have something for you to cling to.)
Gives a thorough take-down of virtually all large parts of our health care system (hospitals, insurance, government), and offers a solution that's a hybrid of the typical right-wing position (keep the government out!) and the typical left-wing position (keep everyone but the government out!) that seems pretty close to right to me: nationalized disaster insurance, an end to comprehensive insurance, and HSAs. (Well, yeah, this would seem right to me, since it's what I do, minus the nationalized part, but this covers the issue of people getting bankrupted by healthcare when they can't afford insurance.)
Anyway, read the article if you're interested in health care. It's very long, but you'll get a pretty good picture of how the markets and the government have failed in health care. (Whether your view is that government has caused that failure in the markets, or markets have caused the failure of government, the article will have something for you to cling to.)
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