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QuoteHe does make sense. I do take issue with his forum for the most recent of his talks (I think it was inappropriate and against the known rules going it) but I like what he has to say.
Dr. Carson won't get the Presidential Freedom Medal from this President.
rushmc 23
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In any event, I find Dr. Carson's comments at the National Prayer Breakfast refreshing. I think he addressed symptoms, rather than the underlying syndrome, but it's a start.
BSBD,
Winsor
I find this interesting
Can you expand?
Sure, but it is difficult to do so in the short form of this forum.
One example is his treatment of health care costs, where he focuses on the mechanism whereby people pay their medical bills. He entirely overlooks the problem of WHY the medical bills are so high.
Over 90% of medical costs are overhead. Presented with a bill that includes $10,000 a day for a hospital bed, the key issue is not how to come up with that kind of money but, rather, how it is possible to reduce the overhead to the extent that the costs are only 10x as high as a four-star hotel, not 100x; 1,000 a day for a room alone is still obscenely expensive.
The last two go-arounds of "Health Care Reform," one of which saw changes ramrodded into place, were the result of lawyers trying to fix the medical system. Lawyers trying to fix the problem of Doctors charging too much money? What is wrong with this picture?
To the question of whether the problem is the medical system, the political system or the recipients of medical care, the answer is an unequivocal "YES."
It is hard to say whether our political system, legal system or health care system is the more badly broken. They are all in particularly bad shape.
Why is this? Because of us. As Jello Biafra said, "give me convenience or give me death!"
We want an affordable health care system where we can get the latest and greatest treatments at our convenience. Any errors made by medical practitioners are unacceptable; since M.D. stands for "Minor Deity," human error is out of the question. Even if we are in the process of dying (aren't we all?) when we show up, we have the absolute right to compensation if we are not satisfied with the outcome.
I can, and tend to, go on, but I am suspicious of simplistic treatments from anyone with a vested interest in an issue. This is not necessarily due to conflict of interest, but also comes from being too close to see the big picture. Can't see the forest for the trees and all that.
BSBD,
Winsor
Thanks for taking the time
Good post
"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
winsor 236
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In any event, I find Dr. Carson's comments at the National Prayer Breakfast refreshing. I think he addressed symptoms, rather than the underlying syndrome, but it's a start.
BSBD,
Winsor
I find this interesting
Can you expand?
I stumbled across this. It does a pretty good job of explaining why the issue is no so much working out how the bills are paid as it is why the bills are so insanely high in the first place.
I find this interesting
Can you expand?
Sure, but it is difficult to do so in the short form of this forum.
One example is his treatment of health care costs, where he focuses on the mechanism whereby people pay their medical bills. He entirely overlooks the problem of WHY the medical bills are so high.
Over 90% of medical costs are overhead. Presented with a bill that includes $10,000 a day for a hospital bed, the key issue is not how to come up with that kind of money but, rather, how it is possible to reduce the overhead to the extent that the costs are only 10x as high as a four-star hotel, not 100x; 1,000 a day for a room alone is still obscenely expensive.
The last two go-arounds of "Health Care Reform," one of which saw changes ramrodded into place, were the result of lawyers trying to fix the medical system. Lawyers trying to fix the problem of Doctors charging too much money? What is wrong with this picture?
To the question of whether the problem is the medical system, the political system or the recipients of medical care, the answer is an unequivocal "YES."
It is hard to say whether our political system, legal system or health care system is the more badly broken. They are all in particularly bad shape.
Why is this? Because of us. As Jello Biafra said, "give me convenience or give me death!"
We want an affordable health care system where we can get the latest and greatest treatments at our convenience. Any errors made by medical practitioners are unacceptable; since M.D. stands for "Minor Deity," human error is out of the question. Even if we are in the process of dying (aren't we all?) when we show up, we have the absolute right to compensation if we are not satisfied with the outcome.
I can, and tend to, go on, but I am suspicious of simplistic treatments from anyone with a vested interest in an issue. This is not necessarily due to conflict of interest, but also comes from being too close to see the big picture. Can't see the forest for the trees and all that.
BSBD,
Winsor