Posted on 03/03/2010 7:15:46 AM PST by Zanton
The key to highest quality and lowest cost in doctoring is this: No Welfare State mandates on health care. No "helpful" regulations on doctors, medicines, medical procedures, or overall treatment plans. Let people buy any kind of drugs, health care, or medical insurance they want, from anyone they want, from anywhere on earth. It's called freedom.
Case closed. Nothing else to discuss or debate.
I love it, and have been advocating for this in my personal life for years. The only objection I get is from those that worry about antibiotics overuse causing bacteria and virus changes that will threaten mankind. When I tell them that the evening news brings this kind of story up to keep the “sheeple” in line, they look at me like I have three heads. The truth is, antibiotic overuse is now and has always been rampant among the gay population, among health care workers, and within the “ruling class” of public servants. It is only the mass that makes up the ruling class, that is denied access. Without having to go to see a doctor when the kids get the sniffles and running up a bill for the insurance company, BILLIONS would be saved.
Another way to cut costs from Doctor bills would be to put them under the law. If a doctor can be proven to have harmed a patient in a malicious or careless procedure, they should face the legal system, and go to jail. Why do they need to carry huge insurance policies, when it is the few that are “bad” doctors. Tort reform to control costs of malpractice payouts would also cut overhead in the BILLIONS per year.
Should have proof read better, sorry.
Good point. Gov't control leads to the Soviet Union -- not just in health care, but in everything!
The key to low cost and high quality is laissez-faire capitalism. Poor people will be much fewer in number and fare much better under private charity.
All good points. Tort reform is essential. Current medical malpractice costs and insurance costs are ridiculous and wildly unjust.
As for the overuse of anti-biotics, this problem is tricky. But heavy social pressure — not gov’t coercion — should solve the problem. Doctors and clinics which help create “superbugs” should be boycotted and bankrupted. Really severe and obvious cases, of course, should result in prosecution and jail (and even maybe execution).
Rush "Hillbilly Heroin" Limbaugh is no friend of drug freedom or "live-and-let-live" or the general philosophy of individual liberty. Conservatives like him want to make us "good" via government coercion. They favor drug tyranny, prostitution tyranny, gambling tyranny, criminalization of abortion, criminalization of assisted suicide, banning of gays in marriage and adoption and the military, mandatory school prayer, censorship of movies and broadcast and print and internet, etc. They want to force us to be "moral."
The conservative notion of what constitutes "goodness" and "morality" is mostly false and evil, and they use government tyranny to coerce it. :-(
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