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Originally Posted by Joshua G
respectfully. i wish the GOP would come up with a vision for health care, that does not protect price gouging by insurers & drug companies & hospitals. their abusive monopoly practices make the national debt worse.
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there will never be a solution until someone acknowledges what the core of the problem is: high prices.... forcing people to buy health insurance does nothing at all to lower prices... nor would "universal healthcare"... as both raise demand for healthcare... and since supply of healthcare is fixed, anyone who took basic economics course would know that increasing demand, while holding the supply constant causes prices to rise...
so any pitched solution must either lower demand and/or increase supply of healthcare... some possible ways to accomplish that would be to for example: make it easier for MDs to immigrate to US to practice medicine, subsidize medical education, loosen laws to allow lower ranking medical professionals like nurses to practice medicine in some situations, etc...
however, these solutions are not very popular as they would increase competition in the medical field, lowering profits...