How to Cure Health Care (Milton Friedman Plan)

Hoover Digest ^ | Milton Friedman

[Tribune7]

Tax medical benefits and allow all to have a blanket deduction of $20,000 to replace all current deductions.

[Jim W N]

Why is Dr. Friedman not addressing another "catastrophic" reason for the unraveling of affordable medical care: the '60's & 70's legal/judicial philosophy change to essentially no standard required to prove personal risk or responsibility, leading to out-of-control multimillion-dollar malpractice lawsuit awards, which skyrocketed medical insurance premiums and in turn, hospital and doctor fees? This is when I saw the huge turning point in this whole medical cost issue that led quickly to the affordability crisis we continue to face.

[John Lenin]

90% of politicians are lawyers, the fix is in ...

[Beagle8U]

I think it would be a great plan if the people you were dealing with were responsible humans, they're not.

How Will you deal with the millions on medicaid? Give them the cash in their welfare check? They would just spend it and still demand free medical care.

Rats can't win without promising to steal from productive people to give to the lazy slugs.

2008 the RATS will run on National healthcare and they will win. By 2010 you can be looking forward to paying the taxes to cover that mess.

Unless all the laws that say nobody can be turned away from hospital care are repealed it is coming and I see no way to stop it.

[justrepublican]

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[John Lenin]

2008 the RATS will run on National healthcare and they will win.

Want to bet?

[PGalt]

BTTT

[traviskicks]

bump, great read.

btw, some compilations on Canadian and British HC:

http://www.neoperspectives.com/canadahealthcare.htm
http://www.neoperspectives.com/britishhealthcare.htm

[endthematrix]

I'll take the pay raise. Get employers out of the insurance scam.

[endthematrix]

The GOP might get it first.

[John Semmens]

Hillary-Care to Have Another Go

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) said Democrats she will focus on reviving her plan for comprehensive socialized medicine. The former first lady led her husband’s unsuccessful attempt to nationalize health care in 1993.

The plan is modeled after the nation’s public school system. Each person would be assigned to a medical clinic based on where they live. The Department of Health and Human Services would allocate staff, supplies and equipment to each clinic based on enrollment. Clinic boundaries will be adjusted periodically to ensure equality among the various districts. If necessary, individuals may be bused to other medical districts if necessary to achieve racial and ethnic balance. People could petition for permission to enroll outside their assigned district. DHHS would be authorized to permit these out-of-district enrollments so long as they do not lead to racial or ethnic imbalances.

As in Canada, private medical treatment would be outlawed. Both medical personnel and patients caught engaging in “medicine-for-hire” transactions would face fines and possible prison sentences.

“Health care is coming back,” Clinton boasted, adding, “It may be a bad dream for some, but it’s my dream for America.”

read more...

http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm

[John Lenin]

Changing the status quo is a third rail. Good luck.

[endthematrix]

And the pharma lobbyists...

[wastoute]

Won't happen. The people who make laws are lawyers, not doctors.

[PjhCPA]

Would really like to ping this to everyone. Reading and understanding this (and the true concepts of the free market) should be required for all Freepers.

[Kozak]

PJ O'Rourke has a great paraphrase of Friedman

There are four ways people spend money:

1. You spend your money on yourself. You're motivated to get the thing you want most at the best price. This is the way middle-aged men haggle with Porsche dealers.

2. You spend your money on other people. You still want a bargain, but you're less interested in pleasing the recipient of your largesse. This is why children get underwear at Christmas.

3. You spend other people's money on yourself. You get what you want but price no longer matters. The second wives who ride around with the middle-aged men in the Porsches do this kind of spending at Neiman Marcus.

4. You spend other people's money on other people. And in this case, who gives a s**t?

Note # 4 is ALL Government spending....

[Beagle8U]

No, I don't want to bet. I just see it coming.

Even if we get a Republican President I think it will be a long time before we get the Congress back.

There are too many people without insurance, or their employers have started making them pay a large percentage of what they do have.

If they are paying $400-500 a month for something that they were getting free 10 years ago you'll have a hard time explaining the economics of why they are better off without gov. healthcare.

Even the unions and business are pushing for it now.

Explain how you will convince people that they should pay for their own healthcare when all their life they never have?

I think it will trash the economy but I don't see how you'll stop it now.

[traviskicks]

Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.

[traviskicks]

FYI

[John Lenin]

Explain how you will convince people that they should pay for their own health care when all their life they never have?

Are you really as dim as you appear to be? Right now your employer pays for your health care, with national health care You are going to pay for it instead of your employer with a 17-21% payroll tax or some other made up tax that will equal 17-21% of your pay. The only ones who will be getting it Free are the people already getting it Free, the poor, the elderly. You really are a dimwit if you think the cost is going to be passed on to only the Jon Carry's of this country.