{"id":10244,"date":"2010-03-03T07:00:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T11:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10244"},"modified":"2010-03-03T07:12:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T11:12:19","slug":"fuck-off-and-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=10244","title":{"rendered":"FUCK OFF AND DIE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

That’s conservative\/libertarian Thomas Sowell’s advice<\/a> (paraphrased) for how to reform health care. In Sowell’s view, the problem is that people have insurance. Insurance is a bad thing because it allows people to consume health care even if they couldn’t pay for it out of pocket. So, in Sowell’s perfect world, the folks who can’t afford $50,000 for a heart bypass operation would just die (quickly) and the folks (like Sowell) who have lots of money would pay for their own health care (which would be far cheaper since there’d be less competition for the doctors’ and the hospitals’ services).<\/p>\n

One of the biggest reasons for higher medical costs is that somebody else is paying those costs, whether an insurance company or the government. What is the politicians’ answer? To have more costs paid by insurance companies and the government.<\/p>\n

Back when the “single payer” was the patient, people were more selective in what they spent their own money on. You went to a doctor when you had a broken leg but not necessarily every time you had the sniffles or a skin rash. But, when someone else is paying, that is when medical care gets over-used — and bureaucratic rationing is then imposed, to replace self-rationing… Nothing would lower costs more than having each patient pay those costs. And nothing is less likely to happen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can’t imagine why it won’t happen. It’d be a win-win, for sure. Fewer poor (and middle class) people and healthier (and richer) rich people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That’s conservative\/libertarian Thomas Sowell’s advice (paraphrased) for how to reform health care. In Sowell’s view, the problem is that people have insurance. Insurance is a bad thing because it allows people to consume health care even if they couldn’t pay for it out of pocket. So, in Sowell’s perfect world, the folks who can’t afford […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10246,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions\/10246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}