why do you think that government is incapable when the rest of the world proves the exact opposite?
why are latvia and estonia great comparisons to prove that austerity works, but germany and japan are not good for comparisons that socialized medicine works?
i know you've cited latvia and estonia before, too. so don't try to duck out of that one! (<---sorry for the unnecessary exclamation point, i am adopting beenthere's style for maximum annoyance).
Dude, our government health care is so far from what you are comparing us to. The American PEOPLE are different from what you are comparing. In Japan, people spend 90% of their health care costs on preventative medicine and 10% on care. We are the exact opposite. Japanese are not raised on processed foods loaded with high fructose corn syrup that helps cause our obesity problem. The Japanese and German cultures feel shame for living off of others efforts. We encourage it.
As far as our system compared to their's, they also don't have reimbursement based on whether or not you checked the hispanic/non-hispanic box on the EMR. They don't reimburse based off of whether or not you asked how your sister died. They don't require you see a doc to get a script you've been getting for years. They don't require you can ONLY use drugs approved by a panel made up of drug executives. We can't buy a pill made in Canada because they are unsafe, we must use a pill made by an American company... made in Malaysia.
CBO projections are already 3X the original costs and that's with what they have in front of them still. An assumption that 100% of student loans will be paid back, 100% of eligible participants sign up, and 100% of those signed up actually pay their deductible instead of racking up hospital bills first and not paying them. It will go even higher. Our system is not well thought out. It's piece mealed as we go. EMTALA allows abuse of O'care while HIPAA will not allow O'care to work efficiently. Stark Laws prevent people from paying doctors with trade like they used to do. There's more, but by now you have tuned out anyway.
I remember mentioning how well the baltic nations improved after austerity compared to us. I also remember showing the study of how the world's countries have emerged since 2008 and how countries handled stimulus. The findings were their recoveries were inversely proportional to the amount per GDP the stimulus was. I remember your argument being that those countries are much smaller than us and it's not a fair comparison (yet their universal healthcare was).
We are in the slowest recovery on record and have basically 0 interest and are digitizing 85B a month. Since you are a Keynesian/aggregate demand guy, look up what he describes as a liquidity trap and convince me we are not there. The Baltic countries did the opposite of what we did are experiencing 8% or more GDP growth. I hate to be results oriented, but the results keep staring back at me going "look".
