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Originally Posted by whell
Nope, that's just amplifying the cost issues that we have now. In other words, its like throwing gasoline on the fire.
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Yet, the GOP has no ideas whatsoever to fix this dynamic. Instead, they try to peddle the fiction that selling health care is the same as selling widgets or automobiles and that a conventional supply & demand relationship exists in health care.
A traditional supply & demand relationship can only exist when a customer is working with complete information as to relative quality, effectiveness, availability and price. A person who gets in a car wreck, has a kidney stone or suffers a heart attack or stroke isn't able to evaluate the relative cost and efficacy of his health care options or the cost/benefit relationship of the various treatments/drugs offered to treat his condition (even if complete cost and quality information was available, which it isn't).