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The one tort reform I want is: * the ability to set up a private NHS-like system in the US. Right now, if you do this, you will get sued into oblivion. But I
by danielweber 14y ago
The one tort reform I want is:
* the ability to set up a private NHS-like system in the US.
Right now, if you do this, you will get sued into oblivion.
But I'd like to put $5,000 into a pool with a bunch of other families, and have a bunch of technocrats (that I choose through the market, not one big group where I can hope I can vote for) decide how to best spend that money. Cover some things, don't cover some other things. This will necessarily mean that someone doesn't get covered for something, not because the treatment doesn't work, but because the treatment is not worth the money.
- NoPiece 14y agoIsn't that very close to the HMO model?
- danielweber 14y agoYes. And when they said "no" to radical chemotherapy, they were sued and forced to pay for it. (It turns out to actually reduce patient outcomes.)
- rdl 14y agoOnly the government would have the ability to say no, in practice, and wouldn't due to politics (saying no means you'll be actively opposed by that person's family/etc., and it will be used in campaign attack ads; saying yes is a marginal increase in cost spread out over everyone.