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<blockquote data-quote="diesel96" data-source="post: 243774" data-attributes="member: 9859"><p>Free markets in health care don't work--particularly if we're unwilling to just let uninsured and poor people die or wither with sickness, which since libertarians remain a thankfully tiny minority, we won't.</p><p>-Increasing Businesses and Corperations are no longer willing to provide healthcare or reduce coverage substantially</p><p>-The incentives insurance industries have to cherry-pick healthy customers is on the rise...e.g. Walmart</p><p>-If the uninsured or middle class poor (above poverty status) get severely ill or break something, they don't have the serious option of getting health care </p><p>-The extent to which passing costs to the consumer creates incentives to avoid preventive care or abstain from insurance cost and rely on emergency rooms, which increases expenses in the long run.</p><p></p><p>Medicaid works better than the private (which is to say, managed care) sector. It spends less per patient of equivalent health; has enjoyed a slower rate of growth; and shows virtually no difference in utilization of medical services, which means Medicaid patients are seeking and receiving as much care as similarly situated patients in the private market. (Children actually use more services.)</p><p> </p><p>Unless your only criterion for evaluating health care is the best quality of care available to upper-class individuals, it's a question of people who are looking at the evidence and people who won't believe evidence that doesn't say that markets are better at everything.</p><p></p><p>It will be very difficult to achieve given the institutional realities of the American state, but there's no question that single-payer would be vastly superior to the status quo; it would make American businesses more competitive, provide far more equitable coverage, and probably save money as well. Unless you're a libertarian (or the kind of Bushian conservative for whom conservatism means nothing more than the self-interest of the most powerful), it's a no-brainer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="diesel96, post: 243774, member: 9859"] Free markets in health care don't work--particularly if we're unwilling to just let uninsured and poor people die or wither with sickness, which since libertarians remain a thankfully tiny minority, we won't. -Increasing Businesses and Corperations are no longer willing to provide healthcare or reduce coverage substantially -The incentives insurance industries have to cherry-pick healthy customers is on the rise...e.g. Walmart -If the uninsured or middle class poor (above poverty status) get severely ill or break something, they don't have the serious option of getting health care -The extent to which passing costs to the consumer creates incentives to avoid preventive care or abstain from insurance cost and rely on emergency rooms, which increases expenses in the long run. Medicaid works better than the private (which is to say, managed care) sector. It spends less per patient of equivalent health; has enjoyed a slower rate of growth; and shows virtually no difference in utilization of medical services, which means Medicaid patients are seeking and receiving as much care as similarly situated patients in the private market. (Children actually use more services.) Unless your only criterion for evaluating health care is the best quality of care available to upper-class individuals, it's a question of people who are looking at the evidence and people who won't believe evidence that doesn't say that markets are better at everything. It will be very difficult to achieve given the institutional realities of the American state, but there's no question that single-payer would be vastly superior to the status quo; it would make American businesses more competitive, provide far more equitable coverage, and probably save money as well. Unless you're a libertarian (or the kind of Bushian conservative for whom conservatism means nothing more than the self-interest of the most powerful), it's a no-brainer. [/QUOTE]
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