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Post by Evil Yoda on Nov 10, 2013 17:45:49 GMT -5
Despite what the government would have you believe, health care costs are going nowhere but up. Here's why. |
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Post by dsummoner on Nov 10, 2013 18:10:50 GMT -5
Increasing demand for a supply side restricted market and somehow, as if by magic, aggregate costs would go down? Such a claim made for a nice fairy tale but little else. Cost controls by means of increasing use of price fixing and/or access restrictions should be taken as a given.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Nov 10, 2013 19:11:31 GMT -5
The article mentioned the scarcity of doctors, and no "allopathic oligopoly" callouts? You've disappointed me, d!  |
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Post by redleg on Nov 10, 2013 22:14:39 GMT -5
What article? You forgot to link to it.
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Post by Evil Yoda on Nov 10, 2013 22:36:39 GMT -5
What article? You forgot to link to it. The link is there: click on "Here's Why". |
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Post by dsummoner on Nov 10, 2013 22:40:25 GMT -5
The article mentioned the scarcity of doctors, and no "allopathic oligopoly" callouts? You've disappointed me, d! I but merely used synonymous phrasing for one in the same. Far be it from me to not put that sacred cow on a spit and roast it till it is well done. The interesting aspect of this particular facet will of whether or not the current oligopolists remain consumed by their greed and addiction to societal status, thereby retaining the supply side restriction, whilst the tide is turning against their role as monarchs or will they sacrifice their current status in hopes of retaining some modicum of control. 'Mystery diagnosis' should be sufficient to render the claims of the profession null and void but it may take a few years of experience based evidence as NPs and PAs are able to work on their own and dismantle the myth by being no more incompetent than the allopathic overlords. |
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Post by Evil Yoda on Nov 10, 2013 22:47:04 GMT -5
Doctors will only be able to raise prices without consequence for awhile. If they're not careful they'll find themselves working for the government, as most of their British colleagues do. This will spark the rise of concierge practices unless the government outlaws them - at which point the doctors will envy other professions. They'll have endured more training than many other professions in order to be essentially enslaved. The best of them will flee the country and the quality of healthcare will decline.
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Post by redleg on Nov 10, 2013 23:12:03 GMT -5
What article? You forgot to link to it. The link is there: click on "Here's Why". Sorry, in my browser, the whole post was the same color, and it didn't look like a link. |
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Post by dsummoner on Nov 11, 2013 0:41:18 GMT -5
Doctors will only be able to raise prices without consequence for awhile. If they're not careful they'll find themselves working for the government, as most of their British colleagues do. This will spark the rise of concierge practices unless the government outlaws them - at which point the doctors will envy other professions. They'll have endured more training than many other professions in order to be essentially enslaved. The best of them will flee the country and the quality of healthcare will decline. When that time comes, it will be exemplary of a self-inflicted wound. One need but return to the Flexner Report to see the selling points when it came to creating the oligopoly and destroying competition. The suggestion that X years of education should, by itself, equate to Y dollars of compensation, is amusing. This is the face put on the sale of what is in actuality a compensation basis created by supply side restrictions. The profession has long flourished in its current position based upon taking credit for the works done by other parallel fields of endeavor (e.g. it is not the radiologist that is designing the MRI machine... it is the medical physics engineer that is doing so) to promote the superstitious veneration of itself amongst the dullard populace. Fortunately, it has created its own beartrap and will find that it is the bear. |
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Post by redleg on Nov 11, 2013 9:18:28 GMT -5
Doctors will only be able to raise prices without consequence for awhile. If they're not careful they'll find themselves working for the government, as most of their British colleagues do. This will spark the rise of concierge practices unless the government outlaws them - at which point the doctors will envy other professions. They'll have endured more training than many other professions in order to be essentially enslaved. The best of them will flee the country and the quality of healthcare will decline. The other side of that coin is that fewer and fewer kids will opt for a medical degree. That means fewer and fewer doctors in the future to replace those that either leave, or retire. What may end up happening is that med schools will lower the requirements to the point that the new doctors we do get will be substandard. Or the government might just do what Hillary wanted, and force a certain percentage of college applicants into medicine regardless of what they wanted to do. |
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Post by rentedmule on Nov 13, 2013 4:42:44 GMT -5
Doctors will only be able to raise prices without consequence for awhile. If they're not careful they'll find themselves working for the government, as most of their British colleagues do. This will spark the rise of concierge practices unless the government outlaws them - at which point the doctors will envy other professions. They'll have endured more training than many other professions in order to be essentially enslaved. The best of them will flee the country and the quality of healthcare will decline. When that time comes, it will be exemplary of a self-inflicted wound. One need but return to the Flexner Report to see the selling points when it came to creating the oligopoly and destroying competition. The suggestion that X years of education should, by itself, equate to Y dollars of compensation, is amusing. This is the face put on the sale of what is in actuality a compensation basis created by supply side restrictions. The profession has long flourished in its current position based upon taking credit for the works done by other parallel fields of endeavor (e.g. it is not the radiologist that is designing the MRI machine... it is the medical physics engineer that is doing so) to promote the superstitious veneration of itself amongst the dullard populace. Fortunately, it has created its own beartrap and will find that it is the bear.Very good post. This process has been understood for some time now. In the 18th century Adam Smith devoted an entire chapter of Wealth of Nations explaining why clergymen (the most educated folk as a class in England) were the lowest compensated. |
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Post by Ravenchamp on Nov 13, 2013 7:26:20 GMT -5
must meet fuel costs?
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