Comments on: Dave Ramsey on the Affordable Care Act. https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/14/dave-ramsey-on-the-affordable-care-act/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TB https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/14/dave-ramsey-on-the-affordable-care-act/#comment-27835 TB Tue, 15 Oct 2013 14:43:55 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=39520#comment-27835 <p>Anything that is subsidized becomes expensive.</p> Look at higher education. To get the best quality at the lowest cost with the widest choices requires competition, the freedom to pursue new ideas and alternatives, and the freedom to make money at it. This works for everything else, including most of life's essentials. For the record, well over half of America's high medical spending can be <a href="http://www.rwjf.org/content/dam/farm/reports/issue_briefs/2008/rwjf32704" rel="nofollow">traced to technology.</a> I wonder why nobody has ever asked what America spends relative to other countries on many other things. The idea that we spend more and get crappy care is based on a tiny handful of studies that measure almost everything but the actual quality of the health care, and ignore almost every parameter except raw life expectancy. Anything that is subsidized becomes expensive.

Look at higher education.

To get the best quality at the lowest cost with the widest choices requires competition, the freedom to pursue new ideas and alternatives, and the freedom to make money at it. This works for everything else, including most of life’s essentials.

For the record, well over half of America’s high medical spending can be traced to technology.

I wonder why nobody has ever asked what America spends relative to other countries on many other things.

The idea that we spend more and get crappy care is based on a tiny handful of studies that measure almost everything but the actual quality of the health care, and ignore almost every parameter except raw life expectancy.

]]> By: FrankC https://habitablezone.com/2013/10/14/dave-ramsey-on-the-affordable-care-act/#comment-27830 FrankC Tue, 15 Oct 2013 08:12:08 +0000 http://habitablezone.com/?p=39520#comment-27830 that health care is too expensive. If Al paid that $1800 ER bill how fu is that. He pays $1800 and if he were insured the insurance co would have paid somewhere around $300-$500. Ultimately I'll bet that at least 80% of Doctor services could be performed by CNP's If you get control of medical costs, hospitals, doctors, medicine, the health care problem becomes manageable in multiple ways. My preference is private enterprise for health and social security retirement. Of course all of this is easier said than done. The dirt poor will gain nothing from BO care. It is the lower end of the middle class that need help that health care is too expensive. If Al paid that $1800 ER bill how fu is that. He pays $1800 and if he were insured the insurance co would have paid somewhere around $300-$500.

Ultimately I’ll bet that at least 80% of Doctor services could be performed by CNP’s

If you get control of medical costs, hospitals, doctors, medicine, the health care problem becomes manageable in multiple ways. My preference is private enterprise for health and social security retirement. Of course all of this is easier said than done.

The dirt poor will gain nothing from BO care. It is the lower end of the middle class that need help

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