http://money.cnn.com/2009/08/11/news...ion=2009081209
A couple of highlights:
Glad to see this idea is picking up steam in the media.The reason we buy loads of unnecessary health-care services is not the fee-for-service system, which we use to buy almost all services. It's that we aren't paying with our own money. Only 12% of U.S. health-care spending is out-of-pocket, a proportion that has been falling for decades.
If each of us controlled more of the money that's being spent on our behalf for health care, we can be certain it would be spent more carefully, on services directly or on insurance that covers those services.
Don't let reform partisans tell you how they'd eliminate fee-for-service; make them tell you how they'd let consumers direct more of their own health-care spending.
I don't understand why this is such a ahard concept to grasp. The bill doesn't have to talk about rationing - it is an unavoidable economic effect.The Obama administration has stated flatly that "health care will not be rationed" under its plan. So let's be clear on this: Health care will be rationed. It must be. To say otherwise is to say the government can supply it in unlimited quantities to everyone.