swbluto said:
deronmoped said:
Canadian health care is no model.
SASKATOON  The incoming president of the Canadian Medical Association says this country's health-care system is sick and doctors need to develop a plan to cure it.
"We all agree that the system is imploding, we all agree that things are more precarious than perhaps Canadians realize," Doing said in an interview with The Canadian Press.
"We know that there must be change," she said. "We're all running flat out, we're all just trying to stay ahead of the immediate day-to-day demands."
"(Canadians) have to understand that the system that we have right now - if it keeps on going without change - is not sustainable," said Doig.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jbjzPEY0Y3bvRD335rGu_Z3KXoQw
Deron.
They're finding a mixed model is probably best and that's what I was suggesting was possible - it's like pure capitalism, in the way that public and private sectors can both compete with each other, except one isn't as susceptible to profit-maximizing monopolization and so it's "real competition" in a sense - competition of all possible competitors instead of just profit-maximizing ones. Consumers will vote for which systems serve each individual best with their feet, and each consumer would have their own choice.
The only system that works is where the consumer of the goods controls how their dollars are spent on it. It's really that simple, the farther you insulate the consumer from their dollars the less control the consumer has over the product.
To expect someone else to do a better job of making ones purchases is not reality.
Here are two different systems.
1) You go out make some health care money and buy health care with that money directly from the doctor.
2) You go out make some health care money, the government takes that money, they hire a bunch of people to collect the money, hire people to bank the money, hire people to distribute the money, hire people to make decisions about everyone's health care, hire people to combat fraud from all the corruption, hire people for oversight, hire people to do studies, hire people to hire people...
It becomes what it is like in my City, pretty soon most of the money is eaten up by salaries, benefits, pensions, studies, corruption...
I mean, what would you expect, you just gave the decision on how your hard earned money is going to be spent by someone who could care less about you.
"Lets see, increase my salary, increase my retirement, increase my benefit package, more days off, build my staff, build fancy new office, new car, unlimited gas allowance, junkets... or I could help "Joe Schmo" with his chronic constipation".
Deron.
