Healthcare should be between the doctor and the patient. And if the doctor says something needs to be done, the government should guarantee it gets paid for.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
I'm strongly for a patient Bill of Rights. Decisions ought to be made by doctors, not accountants.
The Patients' Bill of Rights is necessary to guarantee that health care will be available for those who are paying for insurance. It's a part of the overall health care picture.
I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.
I think legislation needs to put an end to doctors profiting on businesses to which they can funnel patients - that is business, not medicine. If you try to call it medicine, then it is corruption. Without legislation, it will keep happening.
When you start talking about the patients' bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there, people agree with all that. What they don't know is how are you going to pay for it.
The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.
I believe everyone should have healthcare. In all my correspondence - I've been saying for years - it's a right, not a privilege.
As economists have often pointed out, we pay doctors for quantity, not quality. As they point out less often, we also pay them as individuals, rather than as members of a team working together for their patients. Both practices have made for serious problems.
People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.
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