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1:50. Did he just say that reducing the smoking age is evidence of an
increased nanny state?
On the idea that doctors want to be independent and think individually.
Good luck. The med school students and residents that I know would feel
more than *honored* to be a piece on the chess board of the bureaucrats to
“benefit to society”. Most of these are hardcore progressives. They see
their status as pion tool of the controllers as their way of “giving back”.
It’s sad.
The role of government in a free society should be the lead exhibition in
the Smithsonian Institute in the section of:
Really bad ideas in history.
Thanks for putting Sabrin on. Good show, Tom!
Get government out of the health insurance business as much as possible.
Limit them to limited regulations and financial support for health
insurance to those who need it.
Obamacare, Medicaid, Medicare and VA hospitals should be phased out. People
under these programs and those who are financially below the poverty level
should be given a yearly amount that they could use to purchase health
insurance.
Keep the federal regulation stating that insurance companies have to cover
pre-existing conditions as long as the person had previous insurance.
Allow people to purchase insurance from any state. Deregulate state health
insurance markets. Unhinge medical insurance from employers in the tax code.
Getting government out and increasing competition in this way will lower
health insurance costs. It cuts the bureaucracy costs, cuts the fraud costs
and improves competition and quality of care.
Why not do financial assistance for health insurance the same way we do
financial assistance for food?
You can’t phase out socialism, it has to be killed outright and quickly.
National, state, county and city bankruptcy is probably the only solution
at this point.
+Ed Waggoner Sr. (Papatch) The only way it is going to die quickly is the
government running out of money. That would require half the population
refusing to pay taxes or an economic collapse.
Increasingly I am for the latter and always for the prior.
+AKlover We completely agree.
It seems more of a supply and demand problem with doctors. Just increase
the number of GP doctors by tens of thousands. Pass a Federal law requiring
that each state produce 10,000 doctors per year for the next ten years.
This would force states to close worthless Liberal Arts programs and start
up Medical Schools. The vast number of doctors would lower the costs of
basic medical care and the cost for Medicare/Medicaid would go down.
In a perfect world, or free market, this problem would have never happened.
The market needed more affordable medical services and the education system
would have provided more doctors. But the people in government and crony
businessmen got in the way and prevented it. So just use the same tools to
fix it.
But the market did provide more toys at a very affordable price because the
government did not get in the way. It sat on the sidelines or provided free
trade agreements which opened the doors to cheaper toys from mostly
overseas factories.
The states are very good at meeting most federal mandates. Just look at the
streets with the numerous safety signs, painted white lines, etc….which
have to be replaced with new and improved ones every few years because
someone in the federal government has determined this will improve safety.
Once government gets involved with various industries, such as the medical
system, and distorts the supply and demand part of it, well, it’s over. The
government in the past has paid hospitals not to train new doctors for
whatever reasons, usually because the AMA or some other group does not want
too many doctors i.e. competition. So just swing it back the other way.
There are hundreds of thousands of people that want to be a doctor but
there are just not enough seats. Why? There is the huge demand for more GP
doctors but the medical schools are not producing enough..here in the USA.
Many new doctors are coming from overseas to fill the demand.
What could be worse than seeing doctors fighting for patients instead of
patients fighting for doctors?
+David Well No no no, the government should not be determining how many of
each job there should be. The market will determine the number of doctors
that will best seek the equilibrium between supply and demand, and thus
resources will be allocated most efficiently.
Yes, if you increase the supply of doctors, prices for medical care will go
down. But, likewise, if you increase the supply of toy-makers, the prices
of child toys will go down. Should we then have laws forcing a certain
amount of people to become toy-makers? Because obviously if you are against
such a mandate, you hate children and don’t want them to have any toys!
Also, what happens if the states don’t meet this law’s mandate? Do state
governments then force citizens into medical positions? Your solution seems
to me to be an artificial, forced statist “solution” that will only make
things worse.
+David Well
I agree, they should take the doctors license away,
+Pdrum2 There has always been a limit on the number of doctors being
produced and sometimes by the government itself. I remember a few years ago
the government was paying some colleges in NYC not to produce doctors. I
know the AMA does not encourage more doctors and less English Majors. It
just seems so inane not to increase the supply of doctors.
+David Well And there might be other unintended consequences that might
follow from that
Murray Sabrin said he couldn’t accept raising taxes on low-income families.
You know, the families that get vastly more benefits from the government
than they ever pay in taxes. Yeah, I mean, paying any amount of tax is more
than paying negative amounts.
+w.s.x.d.r It’s also nasty to arbitrarily define one class as rich, the
other as poor, and steal from the former to give to the latter.
I think they always had plans for single payer. They needed something that
appears worse so then they could push it.