On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Gruss Gott <grussg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dammit Sam. I'm agreeing with you for the second time this week. And > I've read this whole thread.
I must be wrong then :) I'll have to review. Nope I'm good. > See if all airlines asked $5000 for a ticket we'd all have to pay it. > But with good ole fashioned capitalism, somebody would come alone and > offer the same ticket for $4500, then another at $4k, then another at > $3k, then you'd get to today when it's $300. > > That's what would happen with healthcare if consumers were in charge. Too many variables in health care. Insurance companies are monopolies so they aren't going to cut prices unless you knock down state borders. I don't know much about that so hold your fire about states rights. If shopping for a hip or a kidney than yeah you can shop a deal online. General health you need a doctor you can trust, he needs to do tests he thinks will find something and most won't. People can't micro-manage their health like that so they need an umbrella that will give the doc freedom to check hunches even if all the blood work is $800, the MRI is a grand and hopefully won't find anything. That brings us back to the monopolies. > You wouldn't show up and haggle - the prices would be set at what the > market would bear. Machines are still too expensive. Doctors are fighting with insurance co's now and even harder with medi-care/aid and costs are going up. At least people are healthy. Remove more money from the system and the health will suffer. > The worst thing to happen to Americans is credit. And that's what > health insurance is. Here here. > Yet for some awful reason, everyone wants more credit - more plans. > Private plans "too expensive"? Get a government plan! I don't believe easy credit is why health care is expens ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:309679 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
