11-03-2009, 06:03 AM
Can you please explain your opinion further. I am not arguing for the status quo, however I do not understand how this legislation could possibly be beneficial to the people of Hawaii.
I would argue that government intervention into marketplace's cause distortion. You will not see any new hospitals built, and you will then see the current hospitals go under higher patient load because now more people have access to more money to spend on health care. It will cause increase in demand for services, increased bureaucracies, and decreasing care. Hilo Medical center is already owned by the state. The "best" situation i can see is that it creates more "jobs" (nonproductive) as medical coders and processing clerks.
Simply adding ( by government mandate ) more $$ and access to dollars in the system does not help, infact it makes things worse. Why not take a look in our own back yard, the state DOE. Massive amount of money input and yet the output is worthless.
Its not about the AMOUNT of $$ , its about the allocation of the $$ in society, and when you have system set in place to warp the view of individuals and where people should be allocating there dollars, you get distortions, Explain why computers are falling in cost yet medical equipment is not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIcfMMVcYZg
I would argue that government intervention into marketplace's cause distortion. You will not see any new hospitals built, and you will then see the current hospitals go under higher patient load because now more people have access to more money to spend on health care. It will cause increase in demand for services, increased bureaucracies, and decreasing care. Hilo Medical center is already owned by the state. The "best" situation i can see is that it creates more "jobs" (nonproductive) as medical coders and processing clerks.
Simply adding ( by government mandate ) more $$ and access to dollars in the system does not help, infact it makes things worse. Why not take a look in our own back yard, the state DOE. Massive amount of money input and yet the output is worthless.
Its not about the AMOUNT of $$ , its about the allocation of the $$ in society, and when you have system set in place to warp the view of individuals and where people should be allocating there dollars, you get distortions, Explain why computers are falling in cost yet medical equipment is not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIcfMMVcYZg