Friday, May 20, 2011

The Ryan healthcare cost solution

The Cato Institute has produced a video here that explains the healthcare voucher reform proposed by Paul Ryan.  The essences of this proposal is to get away from the third party payer system we now have and introduce market forces into the system.  The video speaks to this subject in a clear and convincing manner.  The debate over this issue represents the clearest and biggest differences between the Republican and Democrat,  conservative and liberal positions on the organization of our affairs going forward.  Should the dems and libs prevail in this case, we will be taking a major step toward true socialized medicine for our country, i.e., the Canadian single payer, government monopsony model.  That model does control costs by government fiat but it also introduces delays and questionable quality of provider care.  Many "experts" seem to be in favor of this model.  We're about t0o see how many consumers of healthcare services are in favor.

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