RE: Our Great Helath Care System
August 8, 2014 at 3:30 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2014 at 3:37 pm by Jaysyn.)
(August 7, 2014 at 7:16 pm)Jenny A Wrote: At risk of sounding *gasp* conservative, which I am fiscally, the problem with healthcare is that it's divorced from the market.
We are talking about emergency services here. You are a fool if you think you can shop around during a medical emergency, however, Hanusz-Rajkowski could have done just that since his injury wasn't life-threatening.
My local clinic (a Minute Clinic inside of a CVS Pharmacy), is staffed by Nurse Practitioners & would have charged him a small fraction of the ER's bill, $80 to $135 tops. There are your damned market forces.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
