Good point, However it would be naïve to belive that the US Health Care system is a ' a deep-rooted failure of the free market,"
I sincerely believe that the Failure in the Healt Care system is due to "Im-proper Regulations". E.g. .... You can purchase Medical Drugs, Mfg. By the same American Company, for $10 in Canada, and the same in the Far East for $5, but here in the US you would have to pay $ 250 ...... If it was a "Free Market" then by definition, the Global Economy Trade would move to equalize this. I don't know how much of Foreign Trade Cycles do you all Follow, in areas of Mfg. there is an interesting trend happening..... Mfg in the East, are now expanding their Business in the West, thus completing a Fully Owned Supply Chain, rather than dealing with the Middlemen..... There are many places in the world, where you can get Quality Care, as a private patient, for a Fraction of the Cost..... Talk to your "Travel Agents" about 'Medical Trips' to Europe, MiddleEast and Far East.... I am not talking about some underhanded / illegal visits to get organs, but straight forward Elective Surgeries....at First Class Facilities overseas... ....Remember all those H1B Visa's and all the Temp Workers in the US, who were re-located back to their own countries after 911.....Guess what, they were not all 'Tomato Pickers', the Educated Professional (Medical Professionals) went back home, and setup shop (Private Clinics / Hospitals) etc. and are now wooing Non-Emergency Medical Patients...... Enjoy a Vacation, Have your Medical Treatement, all this for less than the cost of your Deductable (for those with a $5k or $10k deductable). Stuff like this is part of the "Self Correcting" Free Market System..... Convincing American Consumers that Drugs Mfg. by American Companies, Sold in Canada and other Parts of the World are NOT SAFE, and as such we don't allow them in the US... Is ....im-proper regulation. ... Faisal Imtiaz Computer Office Solutions Inc. /SnappyDSL.net Ph: (305) 663-5518 x 232 -----Original Message----- From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org] On Behalf Of David E. Smith Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 7:51 PM To: WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] Insurance.... On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 18:06, RickG <rgunder...@gmail.com> wrote: > Someone posted earlier that the health insurance industry is not truly > run in a "free market". It's "failure" is exactly due to this. Even > after all the government rules and regulations, who in the USA does not have "access" > to health care? > I suppose we're taking fundamentally different approaches to the issue of health care. I don't see it as one that can (or should) be solved by the free market - as far as I'm concerned, it's a fundamental human right. No person, anywhere on this planet, should have to worry about things like "money" when it comes to basic health and wellness. The fact that even one American (or anyone else really, but this is a US-centric list) doesn't, in my mind represents a deep-rooted failure of the free market, and of basic human kindness and compassion. David Smith MVN.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
