In reading the first two chapters I wondered whether our health care system was more command or market economy (p. 5) now and which direction it would go in if a government option passes. Does the existing insurance bureaucracy share similarities with government bureaucracies like the UK's National Health Service; or, because U.S. health insurers are profit-motivated, is our current system clearly market oriented? And would new government competition increase market dominance or nudge it more toward command dominance?
There's a study in today's Statesman showing that preventive care won't save as much money as politicians are claiming it will.
http://www.statesman.com/search/content/news/stories/nation/2009/09/01/0901preventive.html
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