http://healthblog.ncpa.org/rationing/ Health Care Policy and Reform Insights | NCPA Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://healthblog.ncpa.org/rationing/comment-page-1/#comment-52665 What is the Health Care Debate Really About? | John Goodman | NCPA Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:20:30 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/rationing/#comment-52665 [...] guarantees access to care, regardless of ability to pay, you’re wrong again. In Britain people routinely go to the private sector and pay out-of-pocket for care they cannot get from the state. Canadians come to this country. In [...] [...] guarantees access to care, regardless of ability to pay, you’re wrong again. In Britain people routinely go to the private sector and pay out-of-pocket for care they cannot get from the state. Canadians come to this country. In [...]

]]> http://healthblog.ncpa.org/rationing/comment-page-1/#comment-6159 Betsey Urschel Mon, 14 May 2007 21:05:36 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/rationing/#comment-6159 Thank you John. I love your thinking, and am so happy to be on your list. Thank you John. I love your thinking, and am so happy to be on your list.

]]> http://healthblog.ncpa.org/rationing/comment-page-1/#comment-5472 Clay Mon, 07 May 2007 19:41:33 +0000 http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/rationing/#comment-5472 Again, solid insight into one of the knee-jerk poster-children a lot of public health "professionals" will offer when attacking healthcare driven by market forces. Instead of addressing the gaps you highlight here, the typical response will of course be to downplay any quantified shortcomings of the NHS and revert back to the dogmatic mantra of anti-market. When can we ever finally move on and away from this failed model of clamoring for an American NHS, and start building practical solutions based on the existing system? I gurantee that such realistic direction will not be heard coming out of most public health policy groups. There are myriad intrinsic shortcomings in rationing that can not be explained away, unfortunately most of these drawbacks will be hidden under the cover of politicized approaches to healthcare. Again, solid insight into one of the knee-jerk poster-children a lot of public health “professionals” will offer when attacking healthcare driven by market forces. Instead of addressing the gaps you highlight here, the typical response will of course be to downplay any quantified shortcomings of the NHS and revert back to the dogmatic mantra of anti-market. When can we ever finally move on and away from this failed model of clamoring for an American NHS, and start building practical solutions based on the existing system? I gurantee that such realistic direction will not be heard coming out of most public health policy groups. There are myriad intrinsic shortcomings in rationing that can not be explained away, unfortunately most of these drawbacks will be hidden under the cover of politicized approaches to healthcare.

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