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originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: zupdo
Want to fix health care?
Start looking at the legal and justice system!
The ONLY thing health care can use to hang its hat on to justify the extreme (outrageous) costs of healthcare is insurance and lawsuits. If it wasn't for that...you'd have a competitive free-market in healthcare.
originally posted by: Flyingclaydisk
a reply to: dfnj2015
Yeah...TONS!! But don't ask me...go ask your doctor!
originally posted by: zupdo
I studied economics. Demand and supply determine price. The supply is fixed in the health sector. The number of hospitals don't change. The number of doctors don't change. The number of nurses don't change. The number of medical supplies and equipment don't change. So if more people are forced to buy health insurance because of the ACA individual mandate tax penalty, then demand rises without a change in supply. More demand, same supply, results in higher price, not lower price as Obama promised.
The highest estimates I've seen is tort reform would lower premiums by 2% to 3%. A drop in the bucket compared to what is else that is cause the consumer to be gouged and reamed up the butt requiring MORE healthcare.
originally posted by: zupdo
I studied economics. Demand and supply determine price. The supply is fixed in the health sector. The number of hospitals don't change. The number of doctors don't change. The number of nurses don't change. The number of medical supplies and equipment don't change. So if more people are forced to buy health insurance because of the ACA individual mandate tax penalty, then demand rises without a change in supply. More demand, same supply, results in higher price, not lower price as Obama promised.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: zupdo
Better late than never!
Obamacare was designed and created to be costly and bad.
It was supposed to usher in single payer.
That, right there, is probably the single-most reason why it was a good thing Hillary was not elected.
That being said, it appears as though congress will try to replace Obamacare with another big-government spending boondoggle.
originally posted by: Sillyolme
a reply to: zupdo
Why doesn't employee numbers change? Why would the number of doctors nurses or hospital employees remain stagnant.
I live in a military area but the health care industry is our biggest employer. Sentara and Riverside are both hugh health conglomerates. They advertise every single day for employees.
They are also building. A few years ago they built a thirty acre medical center for Sentara. This year they are expanding an existing complex and refurbishing hospitals at others for Riverside. There are also smaller medical installations and what we call doc in a box emergency offices in many neighborhoods. This area is also a big golf and retirement community and us old folk need our doctors.
It seems those numbers aren't as stagnant as you want to think. I notice you didn't say you're an economist...Only that you studied economics. You don't even say at what level you studied.
Obama care had people lined up as late as last week to enroll. Despite the fact that trump keeps chipping away at it.
trump only wants to destroy everything Obama ever did because he's jealous that the black dude is more well liked and was more effective as a president.
SORRY...