Quote:Are you serious here? climate? geography? You have yet to rebut that every other major democracy has a cheaper system that provides better coverage, and that they all use government price controls, and you resort to climate? Hey, I like the idea of free competition, but what we have now, and what has been proposed recently doesn't even come close. So far in this thread no one has seriously addressed that without the transparency in pricing there is no viable way to set the competition up, and the balkanization of doctors into networks diminishes competition. So far we are 13 pages into this thread, and while I appreciate the contributions that you, Rob, and a few others have made, I have to admit, I am a bit disappointed that most of what we get in terms of a plan is a paean to competition without the slightest idea of how that competition would be successful. Previously I pointed out the disparity in the price of procedures. I have mentioned that several times, and yet you steadfastly ignore that discrepancy that has absolutely nothing with the climate or how much junk food folks eat.

I'm sorry, I didn't realize we were arguing. I can't and don't defend our system as you seem to want, and have no real interest in doing so. I hopefully gave you some information about how prices are set that you can use or not, I don't really care if you're disappointed. The facts is simply that we have a choice between more government control and less government control of the healthcare sector and I will always favor less. If you are incapable of recognizing that your thoughts are much more complex than a comparison of prices among unlike environments then you should expand your thinking.

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