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Ccnn Obama and Independents: What Happened
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CON JOB....Ezra Klein attended a healthcare presentation this morning by Alan Enthoven the godfather of managed competition where Enthoven laid out the pros and cons of a single-payer system. Here s his list of cons ocks in fee-for-service medicine. Hard to change once implemented. Medicare s coverage of preventive services has been poor.We need a lot of innovation in payment and delivery services, and single-payer blocks that.Too much entanglement with politics. Think of how the earmarks will workGovernment can t set every price correctly. There are too many of them!Tax burden probably too high for the US.Government isn t really designed for efficient program management.There s little accountability for poorly run public programs.There s poor customer service.Legislators don t want efficiency.Medicar stanley cup e s low administration isn t merely efficiency, it s also undermanagement.Anybody else see the real con at work here By my count, 7 out of 10 of these bullets 3-4 and 6-10 are essentially the same: government is inefficient and can t administer public programs well. But saying it seven times doesn t make it so. I suppose it s possible that American government is uniqu stanley isolierkanne ely inefficient, but what makes Enthoven believe that Other countries manage to operate national healthcare plans of varying degrees of centralization in a more efficient way than our weird public/private/corporate hybrid, so why couldn t we For obvious reasons, I m ske stanley hrnek ptical of any argument against nat |
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