Comments on: When the Government Controls Medical Care … http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/10/19/when-the-government-controls-medical-care/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:04:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Joshua Holmes http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/10/19/when-the-government-controls-medical-care/#comment-69798 Joshua Holmes Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:38:36 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=6957#comment-69798 Patients are a liability in all third-party payment systems. That the government pays instead of an insurance company changes nothing. As for your "shop and save" example, it doesn't work when you go over the handlebars on a motorcycle. You need the trauma center as soon as possible. Much more medicine works like this than works like your example. I also don't understand your "centralization" argument. Hospitals in the US have general areas and areas of specialty, such as cancer, burn, trauma, orthopedics, etc. I don't see why it's a problem if a hospital has a specialty. Patients are a liability in all third-party payment systems. That the government pays instead of an insurance company changes nothing.

As for your “shop and save” example, it doesn’t work when you go over the handlebars on a motorcycle. You need the trauma center as soon as possible. Much more medicine works like this than works like your example.

I also don’t understand your “centralization” argument. Hospitals in the US have general areas and areas of specialty, such as cancer, burn, trauma, orthopedics, etc. I don’t see why it’s a problem if a hospital has a specialty.

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