Comments on: Problem Solved http://healthblog.ncpa.org/problem-solved/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Fri, 25 May 2012 03:28:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Chris Ewin http://healthblog.ncpa.org/problem-solved/comment-page-1/#comment-38409 Chris Ewin Thu, 15 May 2008 21:50:58 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/problem-solved/#comment-38409 Give me a break… Give me a break…

]]> By: Roger Beauchamp http://healthblog.ncpa.org/problem-solved/comment-page-1/#comment-38408 Roger Beauchamp Thu, 15 May 2008 21:50:37 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/problem-solved/#comment-38408 It is this type of convoluted thinking by intellectual elitists that created the mess we have at present. Unless someone is willing to make a cogent argument against the 180 Degree Approach to Medical Benefits Reform I will continue to promote it as the most politically viable path. What concerns do you have with it? Your thoughts on ways to enhance it? Would you care to share them? It is this type of convoluted thinking by intellectual elitists that created the mess we have at present. Unless someone is willing to make a cogent argument against the 180 Degree Approach to Medical Benefits Reform I will continue to promote it as the most politically viable path. What concerns do you have with it? Your thoughts on ways to enhance it? Would you care to share them?

]]> By: Larry Horwitz http://healthblog.ncpa.org/problem-solved/comment-page-1/#comment-38407 Larry Horwitz Thu, 15 May 2008 21:48:32 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/problem-solved/#comment-38407 Mr. Goodman: You're ahead of us. Can you give us an idea, or link, to what the Commonwealth Fund came up with? Mr. Goodman:

You’re ahead of us. Can you give us an idea, or link, to what the Commonwealth Fund came up with?

]]> By: Lee Kurisko http://healthblog.ncpa.org/problem-solved/comment-page-1/#comment-38406 Lee Kurisko Thu, 15 May 2008 21:47:49 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/problem-solved/#comment-38406 Yeah right. I graduated from med school in Canada 20 years ago and have heard the same mantra over and over in that country, i.e. if we just manage it better, it will all work out. I am still waiting for that to happen. When I worked in Canada, the prevalent belief was that with just another meeting, another committee, another commission or another bureaucratic agency, everything will be just fine. And yet improvement in that system never happens. That is why I have been working in the somewhat free-enterprise U.S. for the last 6 years. Americans have no idea how good they actually have it here and it could be even better with HSA's, high deductibles and a true marketplace. Yeah right. I graduated from med school in Canada 20 years ago and have heard the same mantra over and over in that country, i.e. if we just manage it better, it will all work out. I am still waiting for that to happen. When I worked in Canada, the prevalent belief was that with just another meeting, another committee, another commission or another bureaucratic agency, everything will be just fine. And yet improvement in that system never happens. That is why I have been working in the somewhat free-enterprise U.S. for the last 6 years. Americans have no idea how good they actually have it here and it could be even better with HSA’s, high deductibles and a true marketplace.

]]> By: Tom Emerick http://healthblog.ncpa.org/problem-solved/comment-page-1/#comment-38381 Tom Emerick Wed, 14 May 2008 21:56:32 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/problem-solved/#comment-38381 This was funny. I needed a good laugh. This was funny. I needed a good laugh.

]]> By: John R. Graham http://healthblog.ncpa.org/problem-solved/comment-page-1/#comment-38375 John R. Graham Wed, 14 May 2008 19:38:15 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/problem-solved/#comment-38375 The Commonwealth Fund has made an amazing discovery! Although (according to the press release), health insurance is in such dire straits that "families are feeling the strain on their wallets and their health," the Commonwealth Fund proposal would increase spending by $15 billion (one percent) in the first year - a "minor" "net effect on national health spending." Get it? Although health insurance is too expensive for "families," the families will be rescued by the "nation", from whom the taxes will be extracted instead. As always, this "reform" will tax and spend more in the short term, but save money in the medium and long term: $1.6 trillion over ten years. Hooray! I propose a new financial innovation, in the wake of the sub-prime meltdown. We need a futures market in these health "reforms" that cost more now to save more later. Those policy analysts who promise these pots of gold at the end of the rainbow would be compelled, as a condition of publication, to go "long" their proposals. I commit to always going "short" these proposals. I predict I'd retire richer than George Soros before the 10 years was up! The Commonwealth Fund has made an amazing discovery! Although (according to the press release), health insurance is in such dire straits that “families are feeling the strain on their wallets and their health,” the Commonwealth Fund proposal would increase spending by $15 billion (one percent) in the first year – a “minor” “net effect on national health spending.”

Get it? Although health insurance is too expensive for “families,” the families will be rescued by the “nation”, from whom the taxes will be extracted instead.

As always, this “reform” will tax and spend more in the short term, but save money in the medium and long term: $1.6 trillion over ten years. Hooray!

I propose a new financial innovation, in the wake of the sub-prime meltdown. We need a futures market in these health “reforms” that cost more now to save more later. Those policy analysts who promise these pots of gold at the end of the rainbow would be compelled, as a condition of publication, to go “long” their proposals.

I commit to always going “short” these proposals. I predict I’d retire richer than George Soros before the 10 years was up!

]]> By: Craig Conn http://healthblog.ncpa.org/problem-solved/comment-page-1/#comment-38373 Craig Conn Wed, 14 May 2008 18:18:41 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/problem-solved/#comment-38373 John, I am so greatly relieved that, finally, The Commonwealth Fund has taken care of our healthcare "crisis". How can we ever thank them enough...and where have they been for the last 60 years? CCC John,
I am so greatly relieved that, finally, The Commonwealth Fund has taken care of our healthcare “crisis”. How can we ever thank them enough…and where have they been for the last 60 years?
CCC

]]> By: DoctorSH http://healthblog.ncpa.org/problem-solved/comment-page-1/#comment-38371 DoctorSH Wed, 14 May 2008 18:06:30 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/problem-solved/#comment-38371 Isn't better bureaucracy an oxymoron??? Isn’t better bureaucracy an oxymoron???

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