How do you solve the Health Care problem in the U.S.?
 

I am trying to understand this whole situation and I keep reading the threads, but most of them just talk about either

a) How much a certain poster hates michael moore.

or

b) How crappy the Health Care system is.

I just want to know what the problem is and how to solve it. I know people are getting screwed by the system, but I want to know why and how to fix it.

Re: How do you solve the Health Care problem in the U.S.?
 

Problem: state intervention

Solution: withdraw state intervention



Walter Block - Health Economics (Mises Institute)
http://www.mises.org/multimedia/mp3/...u05-Block3.mp3

Re: How do you solve the Health Care problem in the U.S.?
 

How are people getting screwed?

Re: How do you solve the Health Care problem in the U.S.?
 

Someone asked a very similar question about what the problem is. As for doing what works, the best health care systems are the socialized systems in Western Europe where doctors are civil servants. But since that is too drastic, our best bet is something like Canada with a private system with a single payer.

Re: How do you solve the Health Care problem in the U.S.?
 

I'm not an american so excuse me if I'm wrong here but isn't poverty the real problem over there, not the actual health care system? Therefore you fix the problem by reducing poverty. Public health care just makes everyone poorer.

Re: How do you solve the Health Care problem in the U.S.?
 

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How are people getting screwed?

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See one the 92949792792792 recent threads on the health care system that have deteriorated into,

Some Dude: OMG I GOT SCREWED BY THE SYSTEM. THE SYSTEM SUCKS ASS.
Some Other Dude: No it doesnt, you suck.
Some dude: I tried everything in my power and got screwed by the system. The system sucks.
Some other Dude: No it doesnt damnit.

Re: How do you solve the Health Care problem in the U.S.?
 

Repeal the laws pushed by the AMA which have raised prices and lowered quality.
100 years of medical robbery
Real medical freedom
How Government Solved the Health Care Crisis: Medical Insurance that Worked — Until Government "Fixed" It

Re: How do you solve the Health Care problem in the U.S.?
 

Jorge, I've been trying to figure this out for a while myself. I eventually concluded that it's basically impossible to find a reliable, unbiased explanation. And at least for me, it's too technical of a field to filter the truth from the BS. So I recommend giving up and hoping that your employer has a good health plan. Just be aware that at some point in the future there may or may not be some vaguely defined catastrophe.

Re: How do you solve the Health Care problem in the U.S.?
 

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I'm not an american so excuse me if I'm wrong here but isn't poverty the real problem over there, not the actual health care system? Therefore you fix the problem by reducing poverty. Public health care just makes everyone poorer.

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Then logically, how would you approach the poverty issue?

Re: How do you solve the Health Care problem in the U.S.?
 

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Jorge, I've been trying to figure this out for a while myself. I eventually concluded that it's basically impossible to find a reliable, unbiased explanation. And at least for me, it's too technical of a field to filter the truth from the BS. So I recommend giving up and hoping that your employer has a good health plan. Just be aware that at some point in the future there may or may not be some vaguely defined catastrophe.

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Winner.