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U.S. tops for Healtcare spending

Seeded on Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:24 PM EDT
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health, medicaid, care-regulation
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# Government regulation in the United States generally increases costs. Health care is probably among the most regulated sectors of the economy.
# Experiments show that giving people the freedom to spend Medicaid personal care budgets free of regulation improves outcomes and reduces expenditures

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  • Advanced cancer treatments are costly. If OECD countries believe they can fight cancer without spending more money, they are either planning on using older, less-effective drugs or they impose price controls that do not compensate drug makers for advanced therapies.
  • One policy that might help reduce the cost of new cancer therapies is to streamline the process of Food and Drug Administration approval for new therapies, which would bring about increased competition.

Increasing competition seems to be a counter intuitive measure to Obama Pelosi and Reid

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Reply#1 - Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:27 PM EDT
Wolf Wolfman

They think that they can dictate health care management, when a free market system would manage the system automatically.

During WWII the government took control of the railroads. They did a poor job, as government usually does.

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