I'm not sure how your question relates to my comment-- can you rephrase?
I'm talking about the concept of a single payer system. Whether it's private or public, we will still have the same problem. A group of people will still have to decide what to cover and where to distribute funding. Giving government this power changes nothing. But at least with privatized care, you could threaten to take your business elsewhere, and that gives you a little bit of leverage that you wouldn't otherwise have if there were no alternatives.
I'd love to hear you explain to some of the people who now find themselves cut off from the transplants they need to live that they have to die in order to save the state money.
No, this is the very scenario I'd want to avoid.
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Date: 14/12/10 20:42 (UTC)I'm talking about the concept of a single payer system. Whether it's private or public, we will still have the same problem. A group of people will still have to decide what to cover and where to distribute funding. Giving government this power changes nothing. But at least with privatized care, you could threaten to take your business elsewhere, and that gives you a little bit of leverage that you wouldn't otherwise have if there were no alternatives.
I'd love to hear you explain to some of the people who now find themselves cut off from the transplants they need to live that they have to die in order to save the state money.
No, this is the very scenario I'd want to avoid.