Comments on: What free market in health-care? http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/what-free-market-in-health-care/ Thu, 24 Jun 2010 07:57:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Randy R Cox http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/what-free-market-in-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-2558 Randy R Cox Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:24:23 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=457#comment-2558 Agreed! We do not have free market medicine. Watching people defend status quo as free market is like watching a slave defend freedom of blacks pre civil war. Agreed! We do not have free market medicine. Watching people defend status quo as free market is like watching a slave defend freedom of blacks pre civil war.

]]> By: Peter Trnkoczy http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/what-free-market-in-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-144 Peter Trnkoczy Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:04:49 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=457#comment-144 What we are seeing today (including the election of a religious, collectivist President)is the result and cumulative effect of generations of public school education. What we are seeing today (including the election of a religious, collectivist President)is the result and cumulative effect of generations of public school education.

]]> By: Peter Glickman http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/what-free-market-in-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-141 Peter Glickman Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:07:11 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=457#comment-141 Your comments are factually correct, but I submit they are trivial. EVERY market has and must have government regulations, which function (sometimes imperfectly of course) to protect the interests of both sellers and consumers. None can ever be "free" in the sense that you seem to mean - should I be free to hide poison in the medicine you buy? Or make a baby carraige out of toxic materials? Of course not - hence consumer safety regulations. Would the market "solve" these problems on its own before significant harm is done? Look at several recent cases of toxic Chinese imports for you answer. Some markets may have too much regulation and others too few, but it's just ludicrous to imply that our health care system's woes are somehow due largely to the presence of government regulation. I am a practicing physician, and I can tell you with certainty that most of the problems are due to a)too little regulation to protect consumers and b)wrongheaded regulation. While I strongly believe there can be advantages to having competitive market forces function in our health care system to drive efficiencies and innovations, they clearly must be channeled and restrained to ensure that we all enjoy access and freedom from abusive industry practices. Your faith in pure "free markets," at least for health care, might as well be a religion, given the lack of evidence and defiance of common (and uncommon) sense. Your comments are factually correct, but I submit they are trivial. EVERY market has and must have government regulations, which function (sometimes imperfectly of course) to protect the interests of both sellers and consumers. None can ever be “free” in the sense that you seem to mean – should I be free to hide poison in the medicine you buy? Or make a baby carraige out of toxic materials? Of course not – hence consumer safety regulations. Would the market “solve” these problems on its own before significant harm is done? Look at several recent cases of toxic Chinese imports for you answer. Some markets may have too much regulation and others too few, but it’s just ludicrous to imply that our health care system’s woes are somehow due largely to the presence of government regulation. I am a practicing physician, and I can tell you with certainty that most of the problems are due to a)too little regulation to protect consumers and b)wrongheaded regulation. While I strongly believe there can be advantages to having competitive market forces function in our health care system to drive efficiencies and innovations, they clearly must be channeled and restrained to ensure that we all enjoy access and freedom from abusive industry practices. Your faith in pure “free markets,” at least for health care, might as well be a religion, given the lack of evidence and defiance of common (and uncommon) sense.

]]> By: The Private Healthcare System « Justbkuz http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/what-free-market-in-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-137 The Private Healthcare System « Justbkuz Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:21:21 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=457#comment-137 [...] March 3, 2009 in Who Killed John Galt | Tags: Capitalism, healthcare Doesn’t exist, and hasn’t for a long time, says Don Watkins. [...] [...] March 3, 2009 in Who Killed John Galt | Tags: Capitalism, healthcare Doesn’t exist, and hasn’t for a long time, says Don Watkins. [...]

]]> By: Gail http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/what-free-market-in-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-136 Gail Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:15:04 +0000 http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/?p=457#comment-136 Debi, Try explaining the lack of free market to people that do not farm or actively are engaged in agriculture. As with health care, those of us that are providing the most basic need for people to survive are choked to death with gov't regulations and the CBOT. Check out those issues- I'd love to see your take on that situation and I'd be more than happy to communicate with you about how gov't interventions/programs/subsidies are shutting farms down. Sincerely, Gail Bessom-Klodt Debi,
Try explaining the lack of free market to people that do not farm or actively are engaged in agriculture.

As with health care, those of us that are providing the most basic need for people to survive are choked to death with gov’t regulations and the CBOT.

Check out those issues- I’d love to see your take on that situation and I’d be more than happy to communicate with you about how gov’t interventions/programs/subsidies are shutting farms down.

Sincerely,
Gail Bessom-Klodt

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