{"id":7702,"date":"2005-01-16T19:26:26","date_gmt":"2005-01-17T02:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/01\/16\/universal-health-care.html"},"modified":"2005-01-16T19:26:26","modified_gmt":"2005-01-17T02:26:26","slug":"universal_healt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/16\/universal_healt.html","title":{"rendered":"Universal Health Care"},"content":{"rendered":"

National health care systems tend to have the various problems of any sort of centralized economic planning (since, in essence, they are “planning” the medical\/pharmaceutical economy) — big bureaucracies, politics getting in the way of care, program costs that spiral out of control, a thousand different inefficiencies.<\/p>\n

The biggest problem with universal health care, as a principle, is that it’s an endless game. What consititutes necessary, needed, effective, efficient, and timely care will never be agreed upon, and could never be afforded, even by the richest nation on earth, even if it were agreed upon. <\/p>\n

That said, there must be something <\/em>we in the US can do to avoid stories like this<\/a>. Damned if I know what it is. I tend to see the problems of specific plans more clearly than the solutions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

National health care systems tend to have the various problems of any sort of centralized economic planning (since, in essence, they are “planning” the medical\/pharmaceutical economy) — big bureaucracies, politics…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133910,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/20\/on-the-barrier-to-universal-health-coverage-in-the-united-states.html","url_meta":{"origin":7702,"position":0},"title":"On the barrier to universal health coverage in the United States","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 20-Jul-17 7:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"The author notes that the Canadian model demonstrates that the US could ensure essential health care for all, but goes back to the bitter early days of political argument around the single-player plan (which originated in the province of Saskatchewan. 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