Comments on: Transparency, Accountability, and Personal Responsibility in Health Care http://www.jennqpublic.com/transparency-accountability-and-personal-responsibility-in-health-care/ one part reason, two parts awesome Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:52:04 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Eclectic Radical http://www.jennqpublic.com/transparency-accountability-and-personal-responsibility-in-health-care/comment-page-1/#comment-6029 Eclectic Radical Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:13:55 +0000 http://www.jennqpublic.com/?p=1456#comment-6029 Hrrrrm. The article makes some good points about the flaws with the current discussion in Congress. It's certainly far from 'comprehensive' reform. Everything being discussed in Congress right now, sadly, is essentially another industry bailout... this time bailing out the health care/health insurance industry. He's also right in his skepticism of whether even truly comprehensive reform can reduce costs. He's certainly right about the immense cost of the administration and management side of the health care industry. He's wrong on quite a few things as well, such as the fundamental reason that Medicare costs keep rising is not failure but success: Medicare keeps getting more expensive because before Medicare, old people died a lot more. Medicare is one of the single basic factors most closely involved in the dramatic difference between average lifespans in the latter half of the 20th century in America and the first half. Hence, more people alive to collect Medicare, hence rising costs. Thanks for linking this article, Jenn. There's too much to reply to in it to just list here, so I'm going to do some writing of my own. Hrrrrm. The article makes some good points about the flaws with the current discussion in Congress. It’s certainly far from ‘comprehensive’ reform. Everything being discussed in Congress right now, sadly, is essentially another industry bailout… this time bailing out the health care/health insurance industry. He’s also right in his skepticism of whether even truly comprehensive reform can reduce costs. He’s certainly right about the immense cost of the administration and management side of the health care industry.

He’s wrong on quite a few things as well, such as the fundamental reason that Medicare costs keep rising is not failure but success: Medicare keeps getting more expensive because before Medicare, old people died a lot more. Medicare is one of the single basic factors most closely involved in the dramatic difference between average lifespans in the latter half of the 20th century in America and the first half. Hence, more people alive to collect Medicare, hence rising costs.

Thanks for linking this article, Jenn. There’s too much to reply to in it to just list here, so I’m going to do some writing of my own.

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