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<blockquote data-quote="av8torntn" data-source="post: 569344" data-attributes="member: 8259"><p>To oversimplify it. 1) We receive the best health care in the world. It is obviously worth the price as by your own admission earlier in this thread when your citizens are given the choice you admit they come down here to receive health care. 2) Our Government uses it's power with Medicare and Medicaid as a form of price support by pumping extra money into the system and creating extra demand by forcing more people into the system. Remember if demand increases and all else remains constant price tends to increase. There is also a fair amount of over regulation that increases the cost. This is more secondary but can also be looked at as a valid reason for our rising costs. </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The solutions to our problem would of course cause to much short term pain to be acceptable to the politicians. They would need to stop using the federal government as a price support. They would need to remove some of the barriers to the health care market for both the buyers and sellers. This would include such things as allowing insurance companies to sell across state lines and allowing PA's to open up small non emergency clinics. It would also be helpful to drive down the prices if they took on serious tort reform. See in our country more freedom is what we really seek not some government baby sitter to take care of us. </p><p> </p><p>While your countries poor health care system may work for you guys it would be completely unacceptable to us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="av8torntn, post: 569344, member: 8259"] To oversimplify it. 1) We receive the best health care in the world. It is obviously worth the price as by your own admission earlier in this thread when your citizens are given the choice you admit they come down here to receive health care. 2) Our Government uses it's power with Medicare and Medicaid as a form of price support by pumping extra money into the system and creating extra demand by forcing more people into the system. Remember if demand increases and all else remains constant price tends to increase. There is also a fair amount of over regulation that increases the cost. This is more secondary but can also be looked at as a valid reason for our rising costs. The solutions to our problem would of course cause to much short term pain to be acceptable to the politicians. They would need to stop using the federal government as a price support. They would need to remove some of the barriers to the health care market for both the buyers and sellers. This would include such things as allowing insurance companies to sell across state lines and allowing PA's to open up small non emergency clinics. It would also be helpful to drive down the prices if they took on serious tort reform. See in our country more freedom is what we really seek not some government baby sitter to take care of us. While your countries poor health care system may work for you guys it would be completely unacceptable to us. [/QUOTE]
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