Bingo! I have been screaming this too: The “health care” problem is primarily a supply and demand problem, exacerbated by the gov’t injecting itself and it’s money into the picture. To the extent that tort reform and some other measures could free up medical personnel a little, to do more real “care”, one can chip away at the edges a bit. But the bulk of the problem is NOT being addressed in Washington, largely for the reasons you say, at least when it comes to the libs.
To the person who mentioned RN’s (etc.) taking up the slack, I would remind them that there is a projected shortage of 1 MILLION nurses by 2020. I can’t remember where I read that (might have been a link from Walter Williams site, but for the life of me I can’t find it!)
Is my mouse double clicking tonight???
Exactly. And we’ve already got a nursing shortage. The truth is that if we had as many doctors as we really need, that would increase the demand for nurses even further. And if we had more doctors, that would increase the amount of capital investment. One of the reasons hospitals don’t seem to be able to make it is that there are not enough doctors to staff them. Fix that problem, and hospitals will be opening for business all over America.