Sunday, March 21, 2010
Healthcare Reform Bill
As I understand it there is a healthcare reform bill that will be voted on later today. Simply put the bill will cost a lot of money, have varied if any results, and disrupt the existing insurance system in place. Furthermore, what does the government know about the insurance business? The argument I have most often heard revolves around the individuals running state insurance programs would be incentivized the ability to be a "good guy." Unfortunately, most people are not sustained by merely being a good person. Challenge, intrigue, and excitement may be sustainable ideas to keep an individual at successfully working at their place of employment. But being a "good" person will not sustain someone over the long term - and the idea alone will certainly not attract talent.
The bottom line is, efficiency could be improved. Every week doctors are sued for excessive punitive damages - often times loosing and being forced to pay even higher medical malpractice insurance premiums. There is no need for archaic archiving systems. The list goes on. Reforming the healthcare industry to burden a country that cannot afford anything of the sort, is not a proper solution. I'm sure you've heard plenty an argument about healthcare in the past couple months, so in the interest of your time and non-redundancy I have not delved into the detail I could. If you're interested in more let me know.
The bottom line is, efficiency could be improved. Every week doctors are sued for excessive punitive damages - often times loosing and being forced to pay even higher medical malpractice insurance premiums. There is no need for archaic archiving systems. The list goes on. Reforming the healthcare industry to burden a country that cannot afford anything of the sort, is not a proper solution. I'm sure you've heard plenty an argument about healthcare in the past couple months, so in the interest of your time and non-redundancy I have not delved into the detail I could. If you're interested in more let me know.
# posted by jn @ 8:37 AM 
