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[state health insurance] > they lack perverse incentives to allow costs to rise But, of course, they also lack incentive to actually provide all that much car
by wtbob 13y ago
[state health insurance]
> they lack perverse incentives to allow costs to rise
But, of course, they also lack incentive to actually provide all that much care, so long as those who are inconvenienced are politically unimportant (e.g. disabled newborns), and they have plenty of incentive to provide more care for the politically connected.
- jjoonathan 13y agoTheoretically, you're right. In practice, we can just look at existing single payer systems and see how they're doing. Would you rather be a poor parent of a disabled child in the US or the UK?