How to Fix Health Care: Lasik Surgery For The Medical Debate
Make no mistake about it. Health care reform is coming. But what’s the best way to fix our health care system, which is an inefficient, complicated mess of private actors, third-party payers, public subsidies, and innumerable state and federal regulations? Should we place our faith in the government or in the free market?
ObamaCare supporters argue that the answer lies in more government—more subsidies, more regulations, a law mandating individuals buy health-insurance coverage and, of course, more taxes to pay for it all.
The alternative is to base reforms on what works in the other five-sixths of the U.S. economy, where choice and competition increase quality and drive down prices over time.
Can a market-based health care system work? We can begin to answer this question by looking at Lasik, a medical procedure that’s not covered by health insurance. And has gotten better—and cheaper—over time.
“How to Fix Health Care” proposes three simple reforms that will put us on a path to a health-care system that’s better, more affordable, and more accessible. And get this—these market-based reforms can be implemented without creating new government programs or raising taxes.
Approximately 8.30 minutes. Produced by Paul Feine and Meredith Bragg. Hosted by Nick Gillespie.
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The only way this …
The only way this whole idea would work is if you got rid of health insurance companies. This idea of a free market health care is exactly the opposite of what health insurance companies want.
This doesn’t do anything for those people who are living at poverty level and have families.
The sickest people in america are the poorest 10%.
i say abolish …
i say abolish health insurance all together then…why is there a middleman at all?
You can not beat …
You can not beat free market capitalism. the best system ever devised by man.
in Poland you have …
in Poland you have to wait for quality treatment up to 18 years in a queue – obligatory state health insurance is not good thing
View my video ” …
View my video “LASIK Flap Never Heals – The Sequel”. You can find it on my channel.
View my video ” …
View my video “LASIK Flap Never Heals – The Sequel”. You can find it on my channel.
my mom had lasik …
my mom had lasik and she never has any problems. hurray i just used an anecdote that disproved your anecdotes. guess what not every surgery is going to go perfectly the first time. and out of the 100’s of thousands that happen some are going to need to be redone just like doctors have to operate again on patients in the rest of health care.
@allawayjared I …
@allawayjared I never said really high quality…you can compete against relatively low wages throw other means…like more capital goods (machines) instead of cheap labor.
not everything …
not everything needs to be really high quality, and really high quality things are really expensive, people need to be able to buy affordable medium quality things but when they buy them they support the exportation of jobs.
We can still …
We can still compete on quality…the Germans do it.