The focus on universal care only masks the real solutions:
Everyone agrees that far too many Americans lack health insurance. But covering the uninsured comes about as a byproduct of getting other things right. The real danger is that our national obsession with universal coverage will lead us to neglect reforms “” such as enacting a standard health insurance deduction, expanding health savings accounts and deregulating insurance markets “” that could truly expand coverage, improve quality and make care more affordable.
(via Health Care BS)
Related posts:
- Can universal health coverage be sustained long-term?
- Universal coverage without primary care
- My take: Dr. Nurses, supporting universal care
- Gotta love poorly implemented universal care
- "Universal healthcare would be disastrous"
- Maine’s universal health plan a failure
- Universal health care: Slim chance?
KevinMD.com on Facebook
{ 2 comments }
The most honest discussion of the lemming-like insanity about “universal healthcare” that I’ve seen yet. Health insurance is not equal to health care is not not equal to health. One would never know that reading most articles on the subject. Health care is a personal matter and whether person wants it and wants to insure for it is purely their personal business. A case can be made for provision of charity for the poor, just as for food and housing. We do that on a massive scale now. The only case that can be made for forced collectivisation of costs, is with the case of Emergency care that neither the provider nor the patient have the freedom to refuse. The only right we have to force the uninsured biker to pay for health coverage he doesn’t want is strictly limited to that emergency care when he comes into the ER crunched up and neither he nor the hospital can say “No”.
The problem is not the lack of insurance. The problem is the lack of affordability of health care, and the inability to price shop or shop based on any metric for the consumer.
People talk about health insurance being necessary because they get $150 bills for Igloo coolers in their rooms if they’re private pay.
Comments on this entry are closed.