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Healthcare Reform: A Prescription

Posted by GruntDoc on December 11th, 2007

  • Price
  • Quality
  • Access

Pick any two.

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10 Responses to “Healthcare Reform: A Prescription”

  1. House Whisperer Says:
    December 11th, 2007 at 4:39 pm

    1.Location
    2. Compensation
    3. Satisfaction

    Pick any two when looking for a job.

  2. Mrs. Fred Says:
    December 11th, 2007 at 6:28 pm

    One of our favorite eateries lists:
    Price
    Quality
    Service

    Pick any two.

    We LOVE this statement, and yours is also applicable to the situation. No, I DON’T know which two I’d pick –in either situation!

  3. david Says:
    December 11th, 2007 at 8:54 pm

    The infamous “Iron Triangle” of healthcare delivery…

    The long answer, of course, is to eliminate 90% of the regulation and bureacracy…and then do away with employer-purchased health insurance…and do away with MOST health insurance except for LTC and catastrophic…sort of like we do for auto insurance.

  4. symtym Says:
    December 11th, 2007 at 11:15 pm

    I’ll reduce it to two because value is often characterized in terms of quality/price (dV = dQ/dP).

  5. Steve Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 12:01 am

    David’s correct.

    Make a real market for health care; we will then know the true costs and will be forced to allocate choices/resources wisely and accordingly. Government’s role should be quite limited and mainly serve as a safety net for those few truly in need — and this group is not, for example, 20-year-old college students (”children,” according to Congress) who have chosen to forgo insurance (like I did…).

    I work in a government run monopoly, and my experience there says that those hoping for single-payer, government-run healthcare do so at their (and our) peril.

    Government-regulated healthcare is a sure recipe for ever increasing regulation, scrutiny, and political-risk aversion, concomitant with ever decreasing effectiveness and ever increasing costs.

  6. The Laundress Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 3:14 am

    Aw hell, this is EASY. I pick “quality” and “access”. Let our fine government pick up the tab on prices. This will be simplified if we just get rid of our bloated capitalist economy.

  7. House Whisperer Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 1:07 pm

    Laundress, you almost got me–the part that helped me realize you were joking was where you said “fine government.” I like how you so casually lampooned all the people who think government somehow has any money except ours, or any authority except what we give it.

  8. House Whisperer Says:
    December 12th, 2007 at 1:10 pm

    Steve, I used to work in a government monopoly, and was witness to several rounds of ridiculous red tape, dwindling budgets, untenable work environments, and unreasonable expectations. I got out and have never looked back. Not once.

  9. Health Care BS - MITT, WIT, AND REAL-WORLD CHOICES Says:
    December 18th, 2007 at 7:15 am

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  10. Lenny RN Says:
    December 20th, 2007 at 2:47 pm

    I would rank them as Quality being the most important followed by access. As quality is the most important, I don’t want health care to be in the hands of the government at all. I’ll pay for the piece of mind that if I get sick I will get a high level of care in a timely manner.

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