tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752027331714385066.post7036980665857694567..comments2024-03-19T14:38:21.141-07:00Comments on Terra Forming Terra: Health Care Privatization in Spainarcleinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05942529252160087271noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752027331714385066.post-70297373363971661852013-02-22T14:40:05.027-08:002013-02-22T14:40:05.027-08:00Privatised healthcare is an excellent idea, provid...Privatised healthcare is an excellent idea, providing the Govt gets out of the way with its endless rules, laws and bureaucracies! The big thing here is incentive, and public bodies have no incentive at all to be efficient, so public costs just go up and up while performance goes down and down.<br />Capitalist competition leads to inovation and efficiency, and surely MacDonalds has shown that there is always someone willing to have a product ready for the poor. Curches adn charities can provide assistance for those in need as they have always done, although the writing is on the wall that Govts will soon means-test healthcare so they only pay for the poor anyway. The rest of us will be forced to pay for second-rate public healthcare.<br />Also, using death rates from the USA is very suspect, you tend to die of gun-related incidents there that do not happen in other countries.<br />KPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1752027331714385066.post-12498101318673005682013-02-21T16:10:56.996-08:002013-02-21T16:10:56.996-08:00Thom Hartmann has no idea what Capitalism is...the...Thom Hartmann has no idea what Capitalism is...the definition is: Private ownership of goods and the means of production in a FREE MARKET. The healthcare industry is run by MONOPOLIES- it is not a free market.<br /><br />Google The Surgical Center of Oklahoma to see how reasonable surgery can be when it is run independent of government welfare and insurance:<br /><br />http://www.surgerycenterok.com/pricing.phpAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com