Uwe Reinhardt tries to claim that critics of a public option on the grounds a government plan might lead to rationing are also blindly loyal supporters of everything health plans do to keep down costs that drive down utilization.
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Rationing to save money without regard to health or value is dumb. Doing so without the consent of the doctor or patient and the use of population based information as Reinhardt has relentlessly proposed for a decade is inefficient and does not contain costs or improve improve health.
Further, Reinhardt stumbles en route his leap to logic, as do other single payer supporters, in assuming that administrative controls can tamp down costs. They do not and cannot. All they do -- take note Dr. Krugman -- is ration more completely and destroy innovation.
Then again, Reinhardt who believes America is NOT a democracy but an aristocracy, also believes in massive redistribution of income.
Which is why he continues to charge and take nicely sums from corporate and investor groups to talk about health care.
I wonder if Reinhardt will also pledge to enroll in Medicaid to help drive down health care costs and create social solidarity? Will Krugman?
Read more here
Rationing to save money without regard to health or value is dumb. Doing so without the consent of the doctor or patient and the use of population based information as Reinhardt has relentlessly proposed for a decade is inefficient and does not contain costs or improve improve health.
Further, Reinhardt stumbles en route his leap to logic, as do other single payer supporters, in assuming that administrative controls can tamp down costs. They do not and cannot. All they do -- take note Dr. Krugman -- is ration more completely and destroy innovation.
Then again, Reinhardt who believes America is NOT a democracy but an aristocracy, also believes in massive redistribution of income.
Which is why he continues to charge and take nicely sums from corporate and investor groups to talk about health care.
I wonder if Reinhardt will also pledge to enroll in Medicaid to help drive down health care costs and create social solidarity? Will Krugman?
