Comments on Hope and Change: Why is health insurance reform so hard?

I have analyzed this from an economic perspective....

2010-02-19T05:07:16.060-08:00

I have analyzed this from an economic perspective. Imagine you are a health insurer....

http://dimensionofbeauty.blogspot.com/2010/02/why-is-health-care-reform-so-hard.html

My response was in reply to this point of yours: ...

2009-07-28T18:47:32.911-07:00

My response was in reply to this point of yours:

"and that the private sector can do anything more efficiently than government."

The government cannot run what it already has much less some new system.

Thank you, Harrison, for helping me make another p...

2009-07-28T18:00:53.959-07:00

Thank you, Harrison, for helping me make another point, which is that sometimes people in this health care debate seem to be talking past each other. If I trot out the parade of horribles about our current health care mess, you respond with a parade of horribles about how people supposedly have to wait longer for a doctor in France, and how Amtrak requires a taxpayer subsidy. What we should really be talking about is how to fix the current system.

Administrative costs for the health system the U.S...

2009-07-28T00:12:51.350-07:00

Administrative costs for the health system the U.S. government does run is about 60% higher than with private companies. And that excellent healthcare system you read about in other countries leaves out how long people wait to see the doctor or the drugs that they are not allowed to use.

As far as government doing things worse than private industry I think we only need look at the wasted taxpayer monies that went into the stimulus and how this is buying ham for twice as much as it costs in the store, for example.

Amtrak, another government funded creation, loses money every year and is forced to run routes that lose money and carry few passengers. The government also wastes money to pay for airline companies to serve small airports where in some cases it is faster to drive. Obama requested, and got, a 40% increase for this government waste project.

Government might fight wars better and collect taxes better but everything else, well, no.