[ExI] Warren Buffett is worried too and thinks Republicans are "asinine"

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 3:53 AM, Omar Rahman <rahmans at me.com> wrote:


> I would prefer the Federal government to implement an insurance policy that
> MUST be accepted at all hospitals and only pays a FIXED cost for procedures.
> Comparison shopping doesn't work well in health care because there is a too
> much time pressure and you don't have time to move to Arizona/Hawaii/etc
> where procedure X is covered and/or cheaper than where you live in a 'State
> Model' situation as you have proposed.

### Omar, you are repeating standard leftist boilerplate on medical
care (at least what they say when they don't talk about the single
payer). You hit all the points, even the notion of impossibility of
patient informed decision making in medical care. Just think about the
following sentence for five minutes: "It is generally impossible for
an individual to reasonably choose a doctor/hospital/insurance plan".
Cogitate on the details, try to imagine how a human might go about
this task. Only a propaganda-elicited learned helplessness can stop
you from reducing it to an absurdity. Or think about this one: "Fear
of the police is a good way of making sure there are enough surgeons
healing patients everywhere".

Rafal