There is no question that managed care is managed cost, and the idea is that you can save a lot of money and make health care costs less if you ration it.
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Health care's like any other product or service: if the consumer is in charge of spending his money on it, then the market will make sure that it is affordable.
People don't like it, but inevitably we need to think about both the costs and the benefits of health care. We cannot avoid the financial consequences.
What we're really trying to do is level out the health care system. It has gotten so one-sided as more and more people have been put into managed care; in fact, about 70 percent of the patients in the country.
The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.
Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They've lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them.
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait 'til it's free.
Health care costs are an issue both for the government and for our larger economy.
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.
Discussions of health care in the U.S. usually focus on insurance companies, but, whatever their problems, they're not the main driver of health-care inflation: providers are.
We really do have to get at the underlying question of health-care costs.