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Health Care Debate Summarized

Posted by Kevin under Marketing Resources & Tools

Great post by a friend summarizing the current debate on health care without the fringe rhetoric on either side of the argument…  He made some very good points as well as summarizing the situation.

I work with the ex-CFO of blue cross/blue shield. i talk to him frequently about business, finance and his experience with them. i talk to him quite often about this very debate and discussion. i consider him to me more informed than most. and i hear very little rhetoric about health care/costs that is supported by honest facts from any side.

its about choosing the least worse choice. there are no good choices. there is a dream and there is fiscal reality. there are arguments for and against and the greatest difference between them is peoples willingness to totally ignore the other side of the argument.

to address your remark above… yes, i think big corporations can do better. the simple fact is that corporations have incentives to do better. obviously you can pick out examples that support your point… be my guest. i can reply with 100X the examples to show how government is grossly inefficient and incompetent for each example you produce.

When government fails (as they will), they will simply keep taking more of YOUR money to shore up the system. Government has no incentive to cut costs, work better, be more efficient as an private company does. With government, you have no hope of competition which creates efficiency. All you have is a giant vacuum that sucks money from your pockets, operated by a group of assholes that just tried to sneak in a purchase of new gulf stream jets for their “official use” in a military budget bill.

one can’t argue that the health care system we have is perfect.

however…

one can’t honestly argue that there is a perfect health care system either.

does it need changed? sure.

Should government be the one to step in and take control of your health? Should they be creating a new multi trillion dollar bureaucracy in a recession, on the back of trillions of dollars in deficit spending? i personally don’t think so.

Anon…..