His previous big article on FR:
Bitter Pill: The Exorbitant Prices of Health Care
Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us
Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us
MP3 of interview.
FYI, It was never suppose to work. This is just step one to the finalizing of a “SINGLE PAYER” plan that they had in mind all along. Yet, we have these “REPUBLICAN” politicians that knew all along, that it wasn’t suppose to work, and they continue their charade, in letting us believe that they are against it.
End it, don’t mend it!
I tuned out right after I got to the “it’s not like some people walk into an ER wanting something for free” part. He’s clearly clueless.
Put a “$50 deposit required from all patients” sign out in front of the ER, and install a Free Clinic next door. See which one the line forms at.
What American medicine needs is a transparent price mechanism. What it has is state and regional oligopolies and monopolies.
Let the market work by ended all practices that create monopolies and interfere in interstate commerce. The market literally is a transparent price mechanism. Competition works, don’t conservatives still believe in it?