| Steve,
Is there another country with private healthcare that works better than ours? If there is, please share with us.
Free enterprise and capitalism works very good for most things, but probably not healthcare. The difference is that healthcare is a monopoly. If you want to buy a car you go out and shop and try to get the best price for what you want. But if you are desparately sick, you go to the doctor regardless of the cost. You are too sick to worry about shopping around. In this manner I would suggest that healthcare is more like a monopoly like the gas or light company than it is a free market like selling hot dogs.
But if there is another country that has proven free private enterprise healthcare actually works good then I am all for it. Otherwise, lets adopt what England or Australia does so we can live longer and pay less. |