Obamacare written to deceive the public.

[Heywood]

You mean, like the state health dept in town where my kids get all of their immunizations and checkups? The state dept in town that would coordinate any care my children needed (excluding emergency services.....for that I'd have to drive into a close -bigger- town where they have an ER with whom they already arranged provisions for treatment in advance - close -as in- a mile, course...I guess I could just call for an ambulance too, eh?). I did have to drive a couple of hours to get care for my daughters nerve damage and paralysis, also arranged for by the state (but free of cost anyway - St Judes/Shriners/UK Med is where it's at).

The private clinic would need to reduce its cost and increase its quality to stay competitive. Some private clinics would go out of business as government clinics opened up......but not all would.

-and yet, state health depts don't seem to have put private clinics out of business or pushed them into a competitive stance.

The more "free" state medical care that is provided, the harder it will be for private clinics to exist. Build another free clinic that anyone can walk into and you take away some of the business from the private ones. Some would then close or be forced to become more efficient. At some point we would reach an equilibrium where we are largely happy with our state provided/free enterprise health care system. But we get to that equilibrium.....we get to that satisfying health care system by creating more healthcare.....not making our existing health care appear to be less expensive than it is. Healthcare is expensive because it is scarce. Lets make it abundant so everyone can afford what they want or need.

Private clinics could also contract with the government. But prices would be set by market forces and not by government fiat. If its cheaper to build another free state clinic than it is to pay what the private clinic is asking....build another clinic.