Comments on: Health Wars: The Empire Strikes Back http://healthblog.ncpa.org/health-wars-the-empire-strikes-back/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: DWJordan http://healthblog.ncpa.org/health-wars-the-empire-strikes-back/comment-page-1/#comment-39116 DWJordan Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:17:21 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/health-wars-the-empire-strikes-back/#comment-39116 To: StillaScot Your points can only be taken if one agrees with your premise that those Communist countries' systems you point out were better or on par with US counterparts..... save for the public school system (which is a socialist program) I do not accept your premise ... I am sure I am measuring apples and you are looking at measures of bananas in comparison -- in addition you demonstrate a total disregard for the intrinsic value of individual liberty - natural rights are what our society was founded on - please read John's book. To: StillaScot

Your points can only be taken if one agrees with your premise that those Communist countries’ systems you point out were better or on par with US counterparts….. save for the public school system (which is a socialist program) I do not accept your premise … I am sure I am measuring apples and you are looking at measures of bananas in comparison — in addition you demonstrate a total disregard for the intrinsic value of individual liberty – natural rights are what our society was founded on – please read John’s book.

]]> By: Brenda http://healthblog.ncpa.org/health-wars-the-empire-strikes-back/comment-page-1/#comment-30598 Brenda Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:56:57 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/health-wars-the-empire-strikes-back/#comment-30598 Thanks for making this site Thanks for making this site

]]> By: Del http://healthblog.ncpa.org/health-wars-the-empire-strikes-back/comment-page-1/#comment-16622 Del Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:07:48 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/health-wars-the-empire-strikes-back/#comment-16622 I plan to use your book review of Timothy Jost in the next issue of MedicalTuesday unless you have some objections. By the way, congratulations for being on 20/20. I plan to use your book review of Timothy Jost in the next issue of MedicalTuesday unless you have some objections. By the way, congratulations for being on 20/20.

]]> By: StillaScot http://healthblog.ncpa.org/health-wars-the-empire-strikes-back/comment-page-1/#comment-16561 StillaScot Fri, 14 Sep 2007 02:00:48 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/health-wars-the-empire-strikes-back/#comment-16561 The neo-classical model fails in health-care and in education. It is much more successful in other spheres of the economy. Why were Communist countries able to have good health care and education systems when the rest of their industries collapsed? A neo-classical theory offers little explanation. Why do major market-driven economies (Canada, Britain, Europe) have state-run health care systems that work at least as well as our own? Again neo-classical economics offers little insight. Why do most developed countries have state-supported education systems that function well? The neo-classical model tries to explain their successes away for it has no explanation for why they work. By recognizing other forms of incentive and how they are greater or lesser forces in different spheres of the economy, economic theory can begin to bear on these conundrums. But to recognize these incentives is to acknowledge that neo-classical solutions to our present health care problems must be incomplete. If we can agree on that we may be able to have a less polarized and more constructive health-care debate. The neo-classical model fails in health-care and in education. It is much more successful in other spheres of the economy. Why were Communist countries able to have good health care and education systems when the rest of their industries collapsed? A neo-classical theory offers little explanation. Why do major market-driven economies (Canada, Britain, Europe) have state-run health care systems that work at least as well as our own? Again neo-classical economics offers little insight. Why do most developed countries have state-supported education systems that function well? The neo-classical model tries to explain their successes away for it has no explanation for why they work.

By recognizing other forms of incentive and how they are greater or lesser forces in different spheres of the economy, economic theory can begin to bear on these conundrums. But to recognize these incentives is to acknowledge that neo-classical solutions to our present health care problems must be incomplete. If we can agree on that we may be able to have a less polarized and more constructive health-care debate.

]]> By: Jay Savan http://healthblog.ncpa.org/health-wars-the-empire-strikes-back/comment-page-1/#comment-16529 Jay Savan Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:31:06 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/health-wars-the-empire-strikes-back/#comment-16529 "All truth goes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860 “All truth goes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860

]]> By: Dr. Bob http://healthblog.ncpa.org/health-wars-the-empire-strikes-back/comment-page-1/#comment-16528 Dr. Bob Thu, 13 Sep 2007 18:28:38 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/health-wars-the-empire-strikes-back/#comment-16528 I especially like the next to last paragraph! I especially like the next to last paragraph!

]]> By: Roger Beauchamp http://healthblog.ncpa.org/health-wars-the-empire-strikes-back/comment-page-1/#comment-16365 Roger Beauchamp Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:24:38 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/health-wars-the-empire-strikes-back/#comment-16365 The basic concept of MSA's and HSA's has always been economically sound! The problem is that they were never made to be empowering enough. A physician friend, who has a very high deductible and an HSA, summed it up by saying the problem with HSA's is you cannot get a good buy for cash. I believe that could be corrected. That is why I retitled HSA's and called them Health Financing Accounts. I did not want readers to think that the present restrictions on HSA's would apply to HFA's. The basic concept of MSA’s and HSA’s has always been economically sound! The problem is that they were never made to be empowering enough. A physician friend, who has a very high deductible and an HSA, summed it up by saying the problem with HSA’s is you cannot get a good buy for cash. I believe that could be corrected. That is why I retitled HSA’s and called them Health Financing Accounts. I did not want readers to think that the present restrictions on HSA’s would apply to HFA’s.

]]> By: David R. Henderson http://healthblog.ncpa.org/health-wars-the-empire-strikes-back/comment-page-1/#comment-16364 David R. Henderson Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:23:53 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/health-wars-the-empire-strikes-back/#comment-16364 Very nice e-mail, John. Very nice e-mail, John.

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