Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
It is hard to miss the irony in the fact that the very same week that Republicans were publicly heralding Congressman Paul Ryan's plan to inject market forces into the American health care system, they were crafting a budget deal to strip them from the health reform law.
Yes, it’s free enterprise. But I don’t think that most constituents understand that their health care is being weakened so a few people can make a lot of money.
Referring to practices of some HMO’s:
One of the challenges with a government health system, like in the UK, with all of this data, is that you have a government making decisions on which treatments they'll pay for and which ones they won't. That's a dangerous, dangerous, place to get into society.
What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].
Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.
President Bush’s [George W.] Medicare plan is Robin Hood in reverse: “Take from the neediest and give to the greediest.”
The fear of health care changing is beyond belief. Like there's a way to make the system worse. Really?
Hillary Clinton's radical attempts at so-called reform of the nation's health care system would have been more destructive than even Obamacare has been.
We are the only major country in the world that does not guarentee health care to its citizens as a right.
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The Indian elite send their children to expensive private schools, bypassing the public school system. They have their own infrastructure for water, with sumps to store it, pumps to lift it, and fancy filters to de-risk from erratic, polluted government water. Most access private healthcare to bridge the health services deficit.
The British health care system is a blueprint for the failure of Obamacare, as it is structured.
The Republicans do not believe that health care is a right. They believe that health care is a privilege, no a right. We Democrats believe taht health care is a right.
The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
Graham-Cassidy treats health care as a commodity that can be bought and sold.
