tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post8315441450216105195..comments2024-01-26T10:25:48.047-08:00Comments on shrimplate: Daughter, Yoursshrimplatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08347542266047278227noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11560235.post-66876234655749187212007-09-28T08:28:00.000-07:002007-09-28T08:28:00.000-07:00This is also a fine example of this truism: the mo...This is also a fine example of this truism: the more different systems of medical payment there are, the fewer choices in medical care. If there were only one payer, and if medical costs were paid based on needed procedures given rather than who the patient is, that patient could go to the place most capable of handling the problem instead of the place most willing to accept her plan (or lack of one).<BR/><BR/>The waste and redundancy and stupidity of a for-profit free-market health care system propped up by patchwork government programs and overstressed charities is maddening.Dirk Gentlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05210065444706441795noreply@blogger.com