The efficiencies to be made in health care are in the areas of competitive provision of services: clinics, doctors, hospitals all properly run and competing against each other to bid on the services needed. Competition keeps productivity up and costs low. The trick is to have the government provide the structure, and the private sector provide the contractual services.
That is for life and limb stuff. If you want a face lift, a boob job, a sex change or whatever, you go buy it.
If other services are available that the govt did not contract (maybe they lost the bid) then by all means buy it - but don't expect the govt to fund THAT - you do.
We keep looking at cCabnada vs the USA on this. Lets widen our arcs - look at Japan, etc.
Tom
That is for life and limb stuff. If you want a face lift, a boob job, a sex change or whatever, you go buy it.
If other services are available that the govt did not contract (maybe they lost the bid) then by all means buy it - but don't expect the govt to fund THAT - you do.
We keep looking at cCabnada vs the USA on this. Lets widen our arcs - look at Japan, etc.
Tom