Comments on: The Death Panels http://www.crankymediaguy.com/248/the-death-panels/ News, Commentary and humor from a Blue Collar, Working Class perspective on media and the world Sat, 15 May 2010 22:50:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Karen S http://www.crankymediaguy.com/248/the-death-panels/comment-page-1/#comment-467 Karen S Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:23:47 +0000 http://www.crankymediaguy.com/248/the-death-panels/#comment-467 Hey Cranky, I wish people would be more aware of why healthcare is not a free market . The other "artificiality" of healthcare on the supply side is the monopolies granted by the government to pharmaceuticals in the form of patent protection. While I hear this excuse of how it promotes research and development (yea, like how we got Cialis after Viagra was invented) I think there may be better ways to do it. Thanks. Hey Cranky, I wish people would be more aware of why healthcare is not a free market . The other “artificiality” of healthcare on the supply side is the monopolies granted by the government to pharmaceuticals in the form of patent protection. While I hear this excuse of how it promotes research and development (yea, like how we got Cialis after Viagra was invented) I think there may be better ways to do it. Thanks.

]]> By: Wayne http://www.crankymediaguy.com/248/the-death-panels/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Wayne Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:13:48 +0000 http://www.crankymediaguy.com/248/the-death-panels/#comment-116 How to fix healthcare is real simple--ban healthcare! If we only had universal health care for major medical (hospitalization), and completely outlawed all other forms of healthcare (other than those in need on welfare), the system would fix itself. Doctors would need to lower prices to remain competitive, drug companies would have to lower prices so that those that need the drugs would be able to buy them--which also means not pumping billions of dollars into R&D for drugs that don't do a majority of the population anything as most don't work in that many people. For those that cry "then there wouldn't be enough money spent in the system to keep technology moving forward while prices remain low" I say fucking bullshit--look at LASIK surgery. LASIK has not been covered by insurance, yet the technology continues to improve, and the prices continue to drop. Bottom line, this is the only system that has a chance to work. In addition to lower prices, people will once again be allowed to make their own decisions about their healthcare. How to fix healthcare is real simple–ban healthcare!

If we only had universal health care for major medical (hospitalization), and completely outlawed all other forms of healthcare (other than those in need on welfare), the system would fix itself.

Doctors would need to lower prices to remain competitive, drug companies would have to lower prices so that those that need the drugs would be able to buy them–which also means not pumping billions of dollars into R&D for drugs that don’t do a majority of the population anything as most don’t work in that many people.

For those that cry “then there wouldn’t be enough money spent in the system to keep technology moving forward while prices remain low” I say fucking bullshit–look at LASIK surgery. LASIK has not been covered by insurance, yet the technology continues to improve, and the prices continue to drop.

Bottom line, this is the only system that has a chance to work. In addition to lower prices, people will once again be allowed to make their own decisions about their healthcare.

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