@Yankee,
Quote:Same as life insurance and car insurance, I suppose.
Obviously. Same as any betting process. Insurance is betting.
I actually think you are saddled with a ridiculous system. To be consistent you ought to let anybody practice medicine and let the buyer beware. You have a socialist supply side and a capitalist demand side.
You are not answering to the main points I am making Gov. I'm used to that on the evolution argument threads but I'm a bit surprised you doing it.
If you had a National Health Service as most European countries do you might not be so competitive in other areas. Care to discuss that in terms of human rights issues? It follows that this debate will be a filibuster job. You have nobody who can shout "Just ******* do it". The reason our minister did that was a Gordian knot solution.
I seem to remember that Mrs Clinton had a go during the first term and had to be gently led away amid a fanfare of diminuendo lamb bleatings.
What would it take to have a Secretary of State for Health who could shout "Just ******* do it!!". Loud and banging his fist on the desk so hard some of the slates on the roof were dislodged. And standing up and answering to the chaos that followed.
Every woman over 25 in the country immediately applied for spectacles. Two pairs--one for reading and one for bringing the washing in. And the poor still die quicker. I brought somebody home from hospital in a free wheelchair a few years back because she was unsteady on her feet. She didn't take the chair back for nine months.
Well-- that's what an amateur outside observer thinks it will take. But arguing about it is quite profitable as well. I know that insurance men haven't signed any Hippocratic Oaths. Nor the lobbyists you mentioned. Our Minister was concerned with people's health and with nothing else and I have met people whose tear glands are stimulated at the mention of his name.