Posted on 09/04/2009 3:26:41 AM PDT by Military family member
What can American conservatives learn from Europe’s diverse healthcare systems? Unlike what many left-of-center analysts have claimed, the lesson to take away from European healthcare systems is not that the U.S. ought to implement a single-payer, government-run healthcare system. Although European healthcare systems are routinely portrayed as being “government-run”, most European healthcare systems contain powerful market mechanisms that enable them to deliver healthcare efficiently, which is why many European systems function fairly well, though most have significant problems.
The stakes in the debate are high: no issue is more important to the future of the conservative movement in the U.S. than healthcare reform. The U.S. healthcare system as it currently exists is gravely distorted, having empowered the government and large employers while sidelining the consumer and discouraging disruptive innovation. The few conservatives who continue to defend the current U.S. healthcare system in the name of free markets should cease doing so: they are defending a system that is not a free-market system.
The best healthcare system, from a conservative perspective, is that of Switzerland: it beats the U.S. system in terms of its performance, efficiency, universal coverage, and consumer empowerment. Although the Swiss system is not perfect, in empowering consumers and providing universal health insurance through market mechanisms, it merits serious consideration. In this article, I will review the British, French, Dutch and Swiss healthcare systems in an attempt to see what conservatives can learn from their successes and failures.
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The best system it seems, it the market-drive system.
I’m so sick of this debate.
but libtards won't go for it, nope,.. screw it up so badly that the government will have to take CONTROL OVER ALL!
The US Screwed up healthcare back when we linked employment with “health insurance”, and when we stopped paying for healthcare directly. I am afraid at this point, there is no going back to pure market driven healthcare. What we have now is not market driven, so clearly we can do better, but an eventual government take over of healthcare is not the answer.
Returning to a free-market system wouldn't be that difficult.
This is from David Frum’s site. He is not a reliable source of conservative information or advice for conservative success.
He thinks we are troglodytes.
This article supports a Free-Market approach to health care. As a Conservative, I happen to agree wholeheartedly to that approach, regardless of the source. Would any of us object if the Democrats introduced a totally Free-market approach to health care, just because they are Democrats? Granted, that's not going to happen anytime soon, but the message in this article is good.
bump for later
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