Posted by
Playful Walrus on Tuesday, August 25, 2009 6:18:23 PM
Does Obama or any Congressperson have a legislative proposal that will actually increase the number of medical facilities or medical personnel (doctors, nurses, etc.)? If not, anything they are proposing can only redistribute medical care - at best. Unless we reduce the number of patients. But how do you do that without reducing the number of potential providers?
So who is using a hospital bed that shouldn't be?
Who is seeing a doctor that shouldn't be?
How are politicians going to change that?
Remember the law of supply and demand?
Seems to me, one way of keeping health care costs in check is by increasing "supply" and this competition - encouraging the construction/expansion of medical facilities, encouraging the development of new medicines, medical technologies, and medical procedures, encouraging more people to go into the medical field.
How does Obamacare do that? Taxation, regulation, and overlitigation tend to kill those things.
How can we discourage people from using an emergency room when they really need some other form of medical care? How can we discourage people from visiting a doctor when they don't need to? Aren't there things that can be handled by, say, nurses that we currently mandate be done by doctors?
Previously:
It is the medical pro, not the politician, who gives health care.