NPR Piece on Paying Doctors Under Medicare
This piece looks at how politicians have been trying to figure out how to pay Doctors for over 40 years. They have been failing ever since and it makes one wonder why you would ever want the state to take over health care. I would like to add, that determining the price of health care is not that hard, if you just get the fuck out of the way and let the market do it. You don’t need to ask doctors their worth, you don’t need smart people to create spreadsheets with the value of every single health care procedure, and you don’t need the GDP to cap health care worth. I know for really smart technocrats on the left this can be hard to hear, but to solve the complicated problem of pricing health care you get the fuck out of the way. The system will price itself, dumbass.

March 2nd, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Nice. Medicare was doomed for failure before it even left the gate.