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[Arrian]

Are you talking about Tort Reform, TMM?

If so, I can't imagine that being nearly enough. If not, please do explain further. I'm curious.

Healthcare is, IMO, THE problem we face in the near future.

-Arrian

[Whoha]

What's your solution to the healthcare problem, TMM?

-Arrian

Wage growth to keep up with technological progress and innovation in the healthcare industry, rather than ending technological progress and innovation to match falling wages.

[DaShi]

Broadly?

Legal reform.

So, no answer.

[Arrian]

Wage growth

How?

-Arrian

[Victor Galis]

Why would it be a problem for the UK? They can force service restrictions and rationing on consumers.

They can only do so much and still get the government re-elected.

The insurance industry is very efficient. Unfortunately in the Healthcare industry that makes costs go up, not down.

How? About 1/6th of the money goes to screening people out.

[DinoDoc]

It's not like HMOs don't currently tell people what care they can and cannot have. I count myself lucky to have a PPO medical plan.

So I don't really understand the fear of the government controlling those things as opposed to a corporation.

You do realize that HMOs are an invention of the government, right?

[Kidlicious]

How? About 1/6th of the money goes to screening people out.

That just speaks to how efficient they are in their other operations.

[Naked Gents Rut]

Here's a good example of Obama's scary-smart energy policy.

Good Riddance, Yucca Mountain: Obama pulls the plug on the nuclear industry's last best hope

So much for using nuclear energy to replace coal and gas...

[DaShi]

You do realize that HMOs are an invention of the government, right?

Really? Care to back this up or backpedal? Your choice.

[Zkribbler]

You do realize that HMOs are an invention of the government, right?

Nope. The first HMO was Kaiser Permanente, a creation of Kaiser Steel in Fontana California.

[Jon Miller]

While I am fine with the Obama economics (it isn't great, but surely no worse than Bush), some of his other things (Yukka Mt., unless he knows a lot more than me) are quite suspect.

JM

[Naked Gents Rut]

it isn't great, but surely no worse than Bush

Wrong. It's much worse than Bush.

[DinoDoc]

Nope. The first HMO was Kaiser Permanente, a creation of Kaiser Steel in Fontana California.

The Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 forced the HMO onto the market by giving it assured access to the employer-based market and without which I highly doubt we'd be talking about them today.

[Zkribbler]

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As for Kaiser Permanente, its history dates back to the year 1933 and a tiny hospital in a little town called Desert Center, California. At that time, Kaiser and several other large construction contractors had formed an insurance consortium called Industrial Indemnity to meet their workers' compensation obligations.

[Victor Galis]

The Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 forced the HMO onto the market by giving it assured access to the employer-based market and without which I highly doubt we'd be talking about them today.

Without which we'd really have very limited health insurance, and people would die/go bankrupt when they got sick just like in the good old days, and by good I mean