Comments on: Health Care: A Future Free-Market Alternative http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/health-care-a-future-free-market-alternative/ Ideas on Liberty Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:40:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: RonJon http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/health-care-a-future-free-market-alternative/comment-page-1/#comment-34752 RonJon Sun, 31 Oct 2010 01:33:05 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=11968#comment-34752 What a load of horse manure. This plan is like begging doctors to act like LAWYERS in every sense of how they bill for services. Have you ever gotten your retainer balance back from a lawyer "just like that" without at least asking? What doctors are going to charge only $100/hour and keep up overhead (offices, assistance, staff, insurance, taxes, student loans, continual education, etc.)? This article is a fictional Utopian romp, but in no way does it cast a a "real world" alternative. Maybe if the insured (consumer) is 20 yrs old and never needs more than a few asprin. A comprehensive physical evaluation (with testing) alone costs more than $500 (tests are not billed hourly and evaluation equipment and procedure (imaging, EKG, cathadorization, colonoscopy, bloodwork) cost big money. For the most part I can choose whether or not to be litigous, however I can Not choose not to develop multiple scerosus or sickle cell (as examples). Fire insurance is to health care insurance like a house fire is to a stroke or cancer! They are not comparable. The article is a well written fantasy, but a fantasy it is. What a load of horse manure. This plan is like begging doctors to act like LAWYERS in every sense of how they bill for services. Have you ever gotten your retainer balance back from a lawyer “just like that” without at least asking? What doctors are going to charge only $100/hour and keep up overhead (offices, assistance, staff, insurance, taxes, student loans, continual education, etc.)?
This article is a fictional Utopian romp, but in no way does it cast a a “real world” alternative. Maybe if the insured (consumer) is 20 yrs old and never needs more than a few asprin.
A comprehensive physical evaluation (with testing) alone costs more than $500 (tests are not billed hourly and evaluation equipment and procedure (imaging, EKG, cathadorization, colonoscopy, bloodwork) cost big money.
For the most part I can choose whether or not to be litigous, however I can Not choose not to develop multiple scerosus or sickle cell (as examples). Fire insurance is to health care insurance like a house fire is to a stroke or cancer! They are not comparable.
The article is a well written fantasy, but a fantasy it is.

]]> By: Sylentwolf http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/health-care-a-future-free-market-alternative/comment-page-1/#comment-23682 Sylentwolf Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:51:24 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=11968#comment-23682 THE LYING 'LIBERAL' MEDIA: Ed Schultz, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and Rachel Maddow: These Socialist-supporting, Communist-committed, Marxist-Loving, Nontransparent-Cheating, False-Hope Preaching, Progressive-idiots want the U.S. Constitution Abolished, and/or at least heading in that direction. When Socialist-Dictators from 3rd-World countries praise your economic achievements, you better “MEASURE TWICE, and CUT ONCE” your understanding of your countries future. MSNBC is BAD for Business in the U.S.A.! This is not CANADA! This is not a “HATE” speech from a ‘Right-Wing Nut,’ or even a ‘Right-Winger,’ this is an opinion from an AMERICAN who doesn’t need to think but UNDERSTAND that there is hate everywhere, against anyone, at anytime, about anything, from everywhere (there are BUSH haters on the left & OBAMA haters on the right). Anyone who agrees with the reigning Administration must want to know WHEN to piss, WHO to kiss, WHEN to play, WHERE to work, and WHERE to lay (live). Anyone who agrees with the reigning Administration must have bought, what they couldn’t afford; have trespassed, where they didn’t live; have barrowed, what they couldn’t pay back; listened, to what they didn’t understand, and are now preaching, what they know nothing of. MSNBC, CNN, and the Obama Administration worry more about the well-being and opinions of Domestic/Islomic Terrorist then they do about the well-being and majority, that represent the AMERICAN PEOPLE. They must be more worried about the well-being of 20% of the country, then they are about the well-being of the majority, 80% of the country. You can blame (President) Clinton for pushing away our ECONOMY’S past , (President) Bush for ignoring our ECONOMY’s Present, and (President) Obama for throwing away our ECONOMY’s Future. If you can’t read or understand the Constitution, then get out of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, quickly! So we just passed a Health Care Law in order to know what is in it; written by a committee whose chairman says he didn’t understand it; passed by a congress that didn’t read it and exempts themselves from it; Signed by a hypocritical-president who is a smoker; from funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes; all to be overseen by a sergeon general who by military standards is obese; all to be financed by a country that is broke. (WHAT IDIOTS) OUR INDEPENDENCE IS THE “BIG F@#?EN DEAL!” (Thank You Mr. Biden) THE LYING ‘LIBERAL’ MEDIA:

Ed Schultz, Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, and Rachel Maddow: These Socialist-supporting, Communist-committed, Marxist-Loving, Nontransparent-Cheating, False-Hope Preaching, Progressive-idiots want the U.S. Constitution Abolished, and/or at least heading in that direction. When Socialist-Dictators from 3rd-World countries praise your economic achievements, you better “MEASURE TWICE, and CUT ONCE” your understanding of your countries future.

MSNBC is BAD for Business in the U.S.A.!

This is not CANADA! This is not a “HATE” speech from a ‘Right-Wing Nut,’ or even a ‘Right-Winger,’ this is an opinion from an AMERICAN who doesn’t need to think but UNDERSTAND that there is hate everywhere, against anyone, at anytime, about anything, from everywhere (there are BUSH haters on the left & OBAMA haters on the right).

Anyone who agrees with the reigning Administration must want to know WHEN to piss, WHO to kiss, WHEN to play, WHERE to work, and WHERE to lay (live). Anyone who agrees with the reigning Administration must have bought, what they couldn’t afford; have trespassed, where they didn’t live; have barrowed, what they couldn’t pay back; listened, to what they didn’t understand, and are now preaching, what they know nothing of.

MSNBC, CNN, and the Obama Administration worry more about the well-being and opinions of Domestic/Islomic Terrorist then they do about the well-being and majority, that represent the AMERICAN PEOPLE. They must be more worried about the well-being of 20% of the country, then they are about the well-being of the majority, 80% of the country.

You can blame (President) Clinton for pushing away our ECONOMY’S past , (President) Bush for ignoring our ECONOMY’s Present, and (President) Obama for throwing away our ECONOMY’s Future.

If you can’t read or understand the Constitution, then get out of the UNITED STATES of AMERICA, quickly!

So we just passed a Health Care Law in order to know what is in it; written by a committee whose chairman says he didn’t understand it; passed by a congress that didn’t read it and exempts themselves from it; Signed by a hypocritical-president who is a smoker; from funding administered by a treasury chief who didn’t pay his taxes; all to be overseen by a sergeon general who by military standards is obese; all to be financed by a country that is broke.

(WHAT IDIOTS)

OUR INDEPENDENCE IS THE “BIG F@#?EN DEAL!” (Thank You Mr. Biden)

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]]> By: Dk Goodwin http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/health-care-a-future-free-market-alternative/comment-page-1/#comment-18531 Dk Goodwin Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:46:31 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=11968#comment-18531 I agree with the author. I don't view insurance companies as evil, I do think their ability to pay exorbitant costs has kept costs artificially high. Soon as the consumers are choosing for themselves, costs will come down. I use an alternative plan. I became a member of a consumer driven healthcare provider. For a small monthly membership, I get great discounts on all medical, dental, pharmacy, hospitalization etc. Medical decisions are between my Doctor and myself. No pre-authorization necessary. Discounts always apply and they are good. No existing condition exclusions nor caps on how much of the services I can use in a give time frame. I am outside of the insurance mess and happy to be so. I agree with the author. I don’t view insurance companies as evil, I do think their ability to pay exorbitant costs has kept costs artificially high. Soon as the consumers are choosing for themselves, costs will come down. I use an alternative plan. I became a member of a consumer driven healthcare provider. For a small monthly membership, I get great discounts on all medical, dental, pharmacy, hospitalization etc. Medical decisions are between my Doctor and myself. No pre-authorization necessary. Discounts always apply and they are good. No existing condition exclusions nor caps on how much of the services I can use in a give time frame. I am outside of the insurance mess and happy to be so.

]]> By: Cui Bono Blog » Blog Archive » Alternatiivne nägemus sotsialiseeritud tervishoiusüsteemile http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/health-care-a-future-free-market-alternative/comment-page-1/#comment-18296 Cui Bono Blog » Blog Archive » Alternatiivne nägemus sotsialiseeritud tervishoiusüsteemile Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:02:24 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=11968#comment-18296 [...] ja rohkem ette kirjutama kes, millist, millal ja mis tingimustel ravi üldse saab. Hiljuti panin Ross Levatter aga kirja enda nägemuse vabaturumajanduse tingimustes kujunevast tervishoiusüsteemis... käies samm sammu haaval läbi terve raviprotsess, mida soovitan tervishoiu korraldamisest [...] [...] ja rohkem ette kirjutama kes, millist, millal ja mis tingimustel ravi üldse saab. Hiljuti panin Ross Levatter aga kirja enda nägemuse vabaturumajanduse tingimustes kujunevast tervishoiusüsteemis… käies samm sammu haaval läbi terve raviprotsess, mida soovitan tervishoiu korraldamisest [...]

]]> By: Blagnet.net » Free-market medicine link of the week http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/health-care-a-future-free-market-alternative/comment-page-1/#comment-18136 Blagnet.net » Free-market medicine link of the week Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:17:16 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=11968#comment-18136 [...] Health Care: A Future Free-Market Alternative by Ross Levatter, published in the October 2009 issue of The Freeman. It is a relatively detailed description of Dr. Levatter’s vision of the way the purchase and provision of health care would work in a free society: the way all other aspects of a free market would work. A lot of it is common sense and the application of simple economic trends and truths to this sector of the economy that is on the verge of being nationalized. One other thing that makes it so good is the links to related articles at the top of the page. Check those out for an entire morning or afternoon of libertarian-reading goodness. [...] [...] Health Care: A Future Free-Market Alternative by Ross Levatter, published in the October 2009 issue of The Freeman. It is a relatively detailed description of Dr. Levatter’s vision of the way the purchase and provision of health care would work in a free society: the way all other aspects of a free market would work. A lot of it is common sense and the application of simple economic trends and truths to this sector of the economy that is on the verge of being nationalized. One other thing that makes it so good is the links to related articles at the top of the page. Check those out for an entire morning or afternoon of libertarian-reading goodness. [...]

]]> By: Alexa http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/health-care-a-future-free-market-alternative/comment-page-1/#comment-18077 Alexa Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:37:54 +0000 http://www.thefreemanonline.org/?p=11968#comment-18077 Wow a that was phenominal explination of what a free-market healthcare system would look like. America needs to see this to understand that the alternative to a single-payer system is not doing nothing. Thank you for bringing this point to the table so that we can finally have a debate. But judging by these points, there is no real debate anyway, which is why the left supresses this argument at all costs. Wow a that was phenominal explination of what a free-market healthcare system would look like. America needs to see this to understand that the alternative to a single-payer system is not doing nothing. Thank you for bringing this point to the table so that we can finally have a debate. But judging by these points, there is no real debate anyway, which is why the left supresses this argument at all costs.

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