Tag: privatization
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US Health Care: Why Privatization Is Inefficient – Part 4
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4Arguments Against Universality It is often argued that socialized medicine in the US would introduce a wealth of problems, worse than those currently faced. Government is often regarded as wasteful, rigid and out of touch with the real needs of its citizens. In comparison, private…
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US Health Care: Why Privatization Is Inefficient – Part 3
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4The Industry of Illness It is a reality of our time that the same companies promoting health care products are also largely responsible for underwriting their research. Skepticism about this model of business has led to pharmacoeconomic studies of the popular antidepressants, which demonstrate a…
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US Health Care: Why Privatization Is Inefficient – Part 2
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4Spending More, Getting Less — The Public System Because of their identity as government programs, societal scepticism about the US government’s ability to manage efficiently, and the relative reduction of power and status allotted to the primary recipients of public health care (the poor and…
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US Health Care: Why Privatization Is Inefficient – Part 1
Update: Feb 15, 2010 — Since this post was originally published, the Democrats lost their vote in the US Senate, but the Obama Administration is still pushing for a major overhaul of the American health care system. Twenty-one members of Congress (12 Democrats and 9 Republicans) have been invited to a conference on healthcare set…
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The Future of Health Care?
Should health care be rationed? It’s really a moot question because health care is already being rationed in the United States. HMOs (health maintenance organizations), like any other (successful) insurance company, remain profitable by taking in as much money as possible, while paying out as little as possible. Instead of looking at your car, calculating…