Re: Why socialized medicine is inevitable
From: Les Cargill (lNOcargill_at_cfl.Arr.com)
Date: 02/21/05
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Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 23:32:03 GMT
robert j. kolker wrote:
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> sinister wrote:
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>> Unless you want to continue buffing up your reputation as a rabid
>> anti-empiricist, please provide links to any evidence that the main
>> empirical claim in the article---that the VHA is now providing
>> high-quality health care---is wrong.
>
> High quality in comparison to what? Who made the determination. By what
> objective criteria? Why should I believe this?
>
> Even granting the point there is no assurance that the government will
> supply high quality care nationwide to everyone. Governments have a very
> bad record in quality and efficiency.
>
> Let me ask you a question. Would you like the entire food production and
> distribution system of the counry government run?
It is.
> Would you expect to be
> as well fed?
We are.
> Do you want the workers in the local food store to be
> government employees? If government is so great why not have it run
> everything?
>
See also "the public goods problem" . Is medicine a public good?
Sort of. It's almost perfectly inelastic in demand, anyway....
> Bob Kolker
>
-- Les Cargill
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