Comments on: DUMBEST REFORM POST OF THE WEEK (III) http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/12/07/dumbest-reform-post-of-the-week-iii/ Cleaning the Augean Stables of the Health Care Debate Thu, 10 May 2012 21:39:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: DanielS http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/12/07/dumbest-reform-post-of-the-week-iii/#comment-451514 DanielS Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:45:45 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/12/07/dumbest-reform-post-of-the-week-iii/#comment-451514 Isn't this on the first quiz in Econ 101? If you want to create a shortage in anything, set the price lower than the equilibrium point, T or F? Isn’t this on the first quiz in Econ 101? If you want to create a shortage in anything, set the price lower than the equilibrium point, T or F?

]]> By: AnnieG http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/12/07/dumbest-reform-post-of-the-week-iii/#comment-451503 AnnieG Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:25:34 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/12/07/dumbest-reform-post-of-the-week-iii/#comment-451503 Far be it from this administration to address the facts. Far be it from this administration to address the facts.

]]> By: Catron http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/12/07/dumbest-reform-post-of-the-week-iii/#comment-451513 Catron Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:10:03 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/12/07/dumbest-reform-post-of-the-week-iii/#comment-451513 "The US has a chronic physician shortage, particularly in primary care." Wrong again, Marc. What shortages we have are restricted to those localities (e.g. rural & inner city) where Medicare and Medicaid (i.e. gov't insurance) are the dominant providers of coverage. Why? Because, as in Canada, France, Germany, our gov't insurance programs don't pay enough to cover costs. So our doctors flee the areas in which Medicare & Medicaid dominate. Where do they go? To the localities where private insurance dominates. There are no shortages of any medical service in the areas where most of the patients have private coverage. If we implement some variety of the public option that pays Medicare rates and crowds out private health insurance coverage, we would soon develop the kind of shortages that exist in Europe (and your country). “The US has a chronic physician shortage, particularly in primary care.”

Wrong again, Marc. What shortages we have are restricted to those localities (e.g. rural & inner city) where Medicare and Medicaid (i.e. gov’t insurance) are the dominant providers of coverage.

Why? Because, as in Canada, France, Germany, our gov’t insurance programs don’t pay enough to cover costs. So our doctors flee the areas in which Medicare & Medicaid dominate.

Where do they go? To the localities where private insurance dominates. There are no shortages of any medical service in the areas where most of the patients have private coverage.

If we implement some variety of the public option that pays Medicare rates and crowds out private health insurance coverage, we would soon develop the kind of shortages that exist in Europe (and your country).

]]> By: Marc Brown http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/12/07/dumbest-reform-post-of-the-week-iii/#comment-451510 Marc Brown Tue, 08 Dec 2009 07:00:30 +0000 http://www.healthcarebs.com/2009/12/07/dumbest-reform-post-of-the-week-iii/#comment-451510 The links about other countries are not current. What is certain is that the US has a chronic physician shortage, particularly in primary care. The links about other countries are not current. What is certain is that the US has a chronic physician shortage, particularly in primary care.

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