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how dose a public health care plan change the principle of Supply of and demand?
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Question: It seems that no one who advocates any sort of a public health care option can explain how to change the laws of supply and demand? As I see things whether you would be able to see a doctor or not will always be based on how much time the doctor has available. So what sort of magic spell will the self proclaimed messiah of liberals cast to allow doctors the ability to see more patients at once on an individual basis?
9 Comments
November 5th, 2009 at 11:26 am
I don’t think he has a clue, and I really don’t think he gives a rusty rats a**.
November 5th, 2009 at 11:39 am
That’s not what the public health care plans trying to change.
Many nations have public health care. It’s not perfect, nothing is, but you don’t see families going bankrupt because of medical bills.
November 5th, 2009 at 11:42 am
The health care plan is to pay for it.
The collective doctor’s secretaries can schedule the appointments.
Sorry
Administrative assistant.
November 5th, 2009 at 11:50 am
Um, more people needing health care means more doctors will have jobs. It’s pretty common sense, really.
A public option will allow for more competition, which will reduce prices and/or increase benefits. This is just like when Walmart comes to any small town. The smaller chains don’t go out of business, but change the way they do business, to compete against Walmart. Some offer lower prices, some offer higher quality services, some become specialty stores…and they all make a profit, while WE have the choice of shopping for low prices or for specialty items that cost more.
November 5th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
the self proclaimed magic will be more supply (patients) demand (more doctors) better medicine, cheap and efficient just like France, UK, Swiss, Canada (all I can think of right now sorry)
November 5th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
In time, it will be rationed just like it is in the UK and canada, a Bureaucrat will make your medical decisions instead of the doctor based on expense. Employers will dump the heath care policy to save money and then be picked up by the state run care. Alot of people will drop their coverage to jump on the “free” coverage and run the companies out of business.
November 5th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
It depends on the dose !
November 5th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
I guess what you are saying is that with a national health care plan, the people who are currently going sick without treatment would be able to see a doctor and that would increase demand and so you would have to compete with more people for health care, and we can’t have that, can we?
November 5th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
it would increase the demand and decrease the supply, MD’s are already getting out of the medical field because of all the bureaucracy and with more government intervention more and more will just leave medicine all together and do something else, since more people will have to see a Dr. on a regular basis the demand goes up, this would make for a complete meltdown of the health care system in the US, if the government wanted to help those too immature to buy themselves health insurance because they would rather have shinny wheels on their car or a new cell phone, they would buy them the same insurance policy that I have for myself, but its not about helping, its about power and forcing the people to become more dependant on the government