I've never thought of socialized medicine as being the answer to this country's healthcare problems and health insurance crisis. Our premiums as a small group have been quoted at a 43% increase year over year beginning in July. This is for a group of healthy people. It's also for a plan with a relatively high deductible and few "frills."
We prefer "catastrophic coverage" to protect from a serious injury or some dire medical ailment. So far we've not really needed the "cheap drug card" or the $15 doctor's visit. However, 43% of just about any number amounts to an unhealthy premium increase.
This article from the Cato Institute has been in my thinking for several years. I just don't know how to get patients (shouldn't they be called customers?), doctors, hospitals, drug companies, state governments and Congress to think about medicine in free market terms.
Pharmacolony. Nothing says America is messed up from the inside louder than hearing these words: "The medication your doctor prescribed is... [Blurbomat]
