I’m a free market girl in most cases, but I think we should pool our resources and have the government pay out money for health care. I think this makes sense for two reasons:
- The incentives for many free market enterprises leads to better service, creativity, and innovation. I love this about the free market. However, in the case of health care, the incentive of profit leads to horrible service because then its in the best interest of insurance companies to deny care. THAT is how they make a profit, so this is one case where the incentive of profit is clearly at odds with our goal of having good health care.*
- I really am a free market girl and one thing that excites me about single payer health care is that it will free people. When people have health insurance independent of where they work, more people will be free to start their own businesses or to work at smaller companies. More parents will be free to choose to stay home with their kids.
For a vibrant, dynamic economy, and for the benefit of families, we need people who are free to move onward and upward.
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*I can envision ways to try and align “profit for the the insurance companies” with “better health care for all of us” by legislating the requirement that insurance companies accept everyone. Then, theoretically, it would be in their best interest to give everyone regular, comprehensive care to prevent more expensive diseases later and everyone would win.
I think this is more along the lines of what Obama is pushing for on a national level. I wish him good luck and when he succeeds, the health care for everyone will be much better than it is now. However, its a little hard to imagine that the insurance companies will just accept their new restraints and say, “Alright, game over, it was fun while it lasted, but now lets really try and give people good medical care.”
Instead, I envision companies using loopholes and just being dishonest to deny care. Then more legislation being introduced to prevent those companies from using loopholes, and so on and so on. Also, a single payer system has the benefit of saving everyone money by simply cutting out the insurance people in the middle, AND by being much more efficient as one entity instead of many.
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