The Miserable Science – economics
The Miserable Science – economicsThe assumption by economists from my memory was some perfect, efficient and equal distribution of information. A completely unrealistic assumption to start. Let’s take my brush with retirement and for the last 6 months or longer I have been receiving flyers about enrolling in MEDICARE!! OMG! What the hell are they saying! Why do I need to know this information now??They tell you to start trying to figure out what the hell to do when you have to enroll medicare at age 64 because all the companies can mail you some insurance where the brokers can get their cut. There should be a Medicare shop like H&R Block. I don’t want to rry and guess how sick I might be next year. My heart rate just went up typing that! Running healthcare like an auto shop has been proven not to work. There was a study done years ago that explained the reason health care does not behave like normal services. But we have so many poorly designed solutions because of the worshiping of the god capitalism and bringing in the companies that will benefit from the law to have them write the bill. I have never understood how economists write theories of how markets(not the stock market, that is more of a drunken bar in wild west) but markets of goods behave, when things work different and give different results.
Like almost all of our biggest issues that are not getting fixed because there is going to be a business that gets hurt from a better solution. The Netherlands get 100% of their energy from Wind. Germany has aggressive plans to be on renewables 100% As other countries switch faster than America, they will be more competitive because energy costs will be lower. The Koch Bros had plans to spend $60 million on elections this month.(This is how giving tax cuts to the rich help everyone😜? They can buy power to stop change for years. Tobacco, chemical companies, nuclear, etc. feed shit out like it’s factual and objective under Thiink Tanks and other Apple Pie companies. So you get stuff like “Clean Coal”?? That is a true oxymoron.
Inefficient
This brilliant healthcare system, it costs a lot more than other countries but you get worse quality for that extra! I had some eye surgery last year and all these bills come in separately. Can’t someone handle consolidated billing. I always look at their filling systems. All paper. I shake my head when I see the huge paper files these doctors still have. The whole thing is under paper between providers and insurance companies. If you go out of network they hardly pay you anything. How are these doctors selected? If they are willing to take a lower payment. Not do they have the fewest complications or best service. The consultants have gone back and forth trying anything to keep costs down for companies but about all they have done is shift it to you and me. Like we should feel sorry for the billion dollar companies and volunteer to live more cheaply “FOR THE COMPANY” or is it for the Prince in the castle. They tried paying for preventive care hoping to avoid the big bills for hospital but that could take years to pay off and all companies saw were a lot more claims for small tests and other things meant to keep you healthy. So they switch completely and put in these High Deductible plans that you have to pay $2000 to $5000 before insurance even kicks in. So company costs went down because people stopped using dental, vision, pre-screening etc. So long term, people will have bigger problems.
Solutions
IF youi were to justlook at the most advanced countries and checked medical costs to measures of quality, we should see they are delivering as good or better service at a much lower price. Medical tourism is big business because these other countries are not as brainwashed as Americans. I enjoy listening to someone bring up Bengazi or emails that there is not point in going further since they get their “information” from the same basic source with the same message repeated, repeated the same way Goebells explaine how to fool the masses. Now, everyone seems to think that is OK for people to suffer without help when their job is taken over by a computer but not for an Insurance/Oil/Coal/Gas/Electric Company. that go out of business because we apply technology equally in all sectors. Economist don’t take that into their theories. The private gain, public loss model is our proven model of how to run a country. Required reading is Griftopia.
It was only a few days later, that an obvious contributor to the bad policies followed since Reagan, supported a carbon tax. DiCaprio a republican that supports a rise in taxes? But he quickly added that payroll taxes would be cut. Those are the source of money for Social Security and Medicare. So there is a transfer of wealth from the people to the companies. The net result will be less money in, cut benefits paid out or some risky plan that gets rid of the safety net that all people expect for the price of having the planet trashed!
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