Comments for Another Effort to Impose Philosophy on the Health Care Debate at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 6 out of 6 comments http://www.cepr.net Thu, 23 May 2013 13:23:52 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/another-effort-to-impose-philosophy-on-the-health-care-debate#comment-17220 ...but the Fines... - Donald Pretari Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:28:09 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/another-effort-to-impose-philosophy-on-the-health-care-debate#comment-17219 I agree, the Fines should be much more punitive. - Donald Pretari Mon, 02 Jul 2012 10:21:37 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/another-effort-to-impose-philosophy-on-the-health-care-debate#comment-17213 As kharris points out (more or less), pretty much every attempt at regulation has been met by an equal and opposite regulatory capture (see Nobelist Buchanan). Sometimes the regulations themselves spring from deres to monopolize for either labor or industry. Health care provision is no different that a lot of other regulated industries in that sense...This is sometimes called the law of unintended consequences, or more directly a result of Potomac fever. Somebody has some good idea, proposes a regulation, industry or labor or both co-opts the idea, raises fixed costs so that small businesses are squeezed out...over and over... Witness that ACA doubled down on the drug industry's capture. Interesting that the reverse psychology got the Dem's to pass the Rep's Heritage Foundation health care. And that Roberts approved it. No way will these national panels will control costs...look at expected medicare/medicaid expenses over time...govt. spending always costs more than expected. Remember the outcry when then well intentioned HMOs started using rational health care decisions. Same thing will happen here. "Patient Rights Act of 2013" on the horizon? - pete Mon, 02 Jul 2012 05:27:25 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/another-effort-to-impose-philosophy-on-the-health-care-debate#comment-17209 denim, Your comment suggests a lack of understanding of the basics of the health care debate. The basics have been reviewed probably thousands of times during Obama's term, and there were a smaller number of such reviews prior to his term. If you are unaware of the basics, then I have to wonder why you feel qualified to comment. If you are aware of the basics, but choose to ignore them, I wonder why anyone should pay attention to you. In addition, if you are a regular reader here, you are undoubtedly familiar with Dean's demonstration that the "free" market is anything but free. "Apple type" products are produced and sold in a regulated market. The regulations are far different from the ones in the medical insurance market, but the goods market is highly regulated. There is an alternative for you. You could actually address the issues of market structure, distortion, adverse selection and the like, and try to show why a purely unregulated outcome would be superior. Or more realistically (?) you could try to show why regulating medical insurance in the same way we regulate the market for "Apple type" products would produce a superior outcome. - kharris Mon, 02 Jul 2012 02:38:19 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/another-effort-to-impose-philosophy-on-the-health-care-debate#comment-17207 So it is ok to have a "free market" in Apple type products, but the political elites just gotta regulate the hell out of the health care sector. It is ok to let consumer demand determine the supply of electronic gadgets and the resultant supporting jobs, but health care? Nope, gotta regulate that. How does one spell hypocrites? How does one spell free enterprise? - denim Sun, 01 Jul 2012 21:43:14 +0100 http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/another-effort-to-impose-philosophy-on-the-health-care-debate#comment-17200 As Sarah must know given having a special needs child and the insurance fun that goes with it, private insurance sure as hell has its own "death panels". Private insurance regularly denies treatments it deams unworthy. It truly is a vacuous argument - private insurance makes life and death "payment" calls all the time. In either case, if "personal responsibility" is your schtick - you can always pay out of pocket. - Carl Weetabix Sun, 01 Jul 2012 04:49:18 +0100