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Competition Would Save Medicine, Too

Brian1616 Wrote: Jun 24, 2009 1:50 AM
Obviously, Mr. Stossel has not spent much time comparing health plans. Some of the nuances in HC; what: procedures are covered, the co-pay is/if there is one, is covered/not, the maximum/year, facilities/doctors/specialists are covered; millions of possibilities. Can you imagine covering this in a phone call? It's like reading "terms of use" for computer software, a credit card agreement, etc. Comparing this to an automobile is silly-I just signed paperwork on a car that didn't make sense; it was a leap of faith-so are many things in our lives. Next, the common claim that private business knows what it's doing and government does not-excuse me: who ran GM, Chrysler, and the banks into the ground??? Who's bailing out who??? Lastly,...

Competition so regularly brings us better stuff -- cars, phones, shoes, medicine -- that we've come to expect it. We complain on the rare occasion the supermarket doesn't carry a particular ice-cream flavor. We just assume the store will have 30,000 items, that it will be open 24/7, and that the food will be fresh and cheap.

I take it for granted that I can go to a foreign country, hand a piece of plastic to a total stranger who doesn't speak English ... and he'll rent me a car for a week. Later, Visa or MasterCard will have...

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