Health Care

Health care is being responsible for your own diet and exercise. That leaves illness and injury to be addressed. Every single person in American is covered for illness and injury, either directly by insurance, or indirectly by government payment to the hospitals for taking care of the poor, or politicians, who simply are not required to pay. In the United States we do not reject people in emergency rooms, and set them outside to die (not yet, anyway.) Everyone is covered.

The system we have was set up by the government. All of the brightest minds in politics and medicine created the arrangement. It has failed because all of the brightest minds in politics and medicine are not bright enough to work out a system that will work. There is no substitute for the free market wherein millions of people make decisions on healthcare, illness and injury every hour, perpetually fine tuning the market, with their own money.

Today, all of the brightest minds in politics and medicine are hammering out a new system. It will be far worse than anything we had before.

A few truths. Treating illness and injury is no more expensive than running a restaurant. People, physical plant, inputs and outputs. In illness and injury, prices are set high because there is no free market. Costs followed prices up. It does not cost that much to treat illness and injury. It is just what is charged, and the money gets spent, spread around to those who benefit from then system.

The AMA benefits from the system. Doctors approve the Obama plan. It is hard to see a problem, let alone criticize, a system from which you benefit.

There is no reason in economics, physics, chemistry, business, production, development or ethics that medicine should be any more expensive than candy. Candy is even more of a challenge than medicine, since one has to make candy taste good. Medicine does not cost that much, they merely charge that much. Just because they spend that much, does not mean it costs that much. A free market in medicine would look like a free market in candy. More, better, cheaper, faster.

WE are offered a false dilemma: the government "health care" we have now, a failure designed by all of the brightest minds in politics and medicine, or the "health care" we will have, designed by all of the brightest minds in politics and medicine.

A choice would be what we have now, and a free market. More, better, cheper faster.

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