tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313074299520796798.post908899362582332550..comments2023-10-20T06:08:01.864-07:00Comments on MOCKBADOC: The Market is a Failure? Oh, really?mockbadochttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04276624324142418154noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313074299520796798.post-72828802160913577612009-05-29T11:20:18.732-07:002009-05-29T11:20:18.732-07:00MaineBob,
I am very sorry to hear about your diff...MaineBob,<br /><br />I am very sorry to hear about your difficulties with health insurance. It is indeed a racket. I want to respond to your question as completely as I can, so I plan to make a new post about it today. Hope it's okay if I copy and paste part of your question into the post.<br /><br />Thanks very much for your interest in my blog.<br /><br />Respectfully,<br />MOCKBADOC.mockbadochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04276624324142418154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313074299520796798.post-59481352117929583162009-05-29T09:08:43.530-07:002009-05-29T09:08:43.530-07:00MockBadOC you said at the end of your last post......MockBadOC you said at the end of your last post...<br />"There are 2 ways to fix this, in my opinion:<br />1. Socialize medicine...<br />[OR]<br />2. Make medicine free of interference, resulting in a price free-fall and a return of power to the patients."<br /><br />I don't understand #2... How would that work? I have been self employed since the late '80s and am "underinsured" with a $15K deductable because this catastrophic "health" insurance<br />each year takes more of my financial pie. The US system with health Insurance is broken...and the grass certainly seems greener in other industrial countries. I look forward to your positive solutions for the USA. How would your proposal work if I got a bad "expensive" disease?<br /><br />In the mean time, I am <br />incentivized to avoid the medical care system... I remain healthy, eat right and exercise...<br /><br />Thanks!<br />MaineBobAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12825923272562664405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313074299520796798.post-74985810786851938062009-05-29T08:48:21.267-07:002009-05-29T08:48:21.267-07:00YonZe,
Couldn't agree with you more. Nobody coul...YonZe,<br /><br />Couldn't agree with you more. Nobody could possibly be more against insurance companies in medicine than I am. On a daily basis, I am confronted with the fact that they run a racket and place their bottom line ahead of anything else. Of course, this is their privelege - they are companies, after all. It's just bad medicine.<br /><br />Medicine is a service. It is not a right. It is not a moral responsibility. It is not a commodity. If you are sick, you can choose to come and see me. But you should recognize that there is a cost associated with that visit.<br /><br />Funny story: When tort reform was being considered in Texas, the state legislators began calling the gallery (a large balcony that was, at that time, filled with 3-piece-suit types from insurance companies) "The Owners' Box". Everyone knows that insurance companies have a stranglehold on our government.<br /><br />There are 2 ways to fix this, in my opinion:<br />1. Socialize medicine and give all the power now inappropriately and callously weilded by insurance to an even more callous and untrustworthy bunch - the feds.<br />2. Make medicine free of interference, resulting in a price free-fall and a return of power to the patients.mockbadochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04276624324142418154noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7313074299520796798.post-52390132997794907282009-05-28T20:37:26.796-07:002009-05-28T20:37:26.796-07:00Isn't the idea of health insurance, or insurance f...Isn't the idea of health insurance, or insurance for that matter, a way of taxing the healthy/careful to pay for the sick/careless? If there was no such thing as insurance all of us would probably be extra careful not to get sick. And if we got sick, we should and would have to pay for our fault of getting sick in the first place. Or even if it's not our fault, we would know how much our illnesses truly cost. It would be a perfect, undistorted, market system.<br /><br />It's not what we have now, nor that we have had in over a century. Makes me wanna go back to the great market days of 1850's style industrial revolution market forces.<br /><br />These days, insurance makes us lazy into not monitoring our health because we expect it to pay for our illnesses every time we get sick. It's a hazard to a way of the moral life, where it shifts our personal responsibility to others paying more than they receive. Where is the fairness in that?<br /><br />It's not healthcare that's a failure; it's not the market that's a failure. It's the private health/insurance system. We should let real market forces function and not allow those that rob the healthy and wealthy to pay the sick and loafing types.<br /><br />Go markets go!! <br /><br />You're almost there MOCKBADOC, but I think you should call out the insurance leeches on this too. They're hardly different than the government, imho.YonZehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06321168459059133651noreply@blogger.com