Forum Overview :: Motherfucking News :: Re: Good questions, glad we more or less agree on the basics, though.

[quote name="Zebco Fuckface"][quote name="Senor Barborito"][quote name="Lizard_King"]Ok, but I think having the government involvement stop at the requirement of (some established minimum) insurance has the least chance of removing individual incentive to be frugal in that respect. Which is why I think if we have to cave somewhere, that might be a possibility (again, except for the caveat above...but I suspect insurance companies would be willing to trade that in return for all of America as a client). Ask foogla about his nation of hypochondriacs...I believe it was the Economist that recently tracked how much more and for what petty reasons Germans go to the doctor simply because it's "free". Also, how does the model you propose account for immigration (ie newly arrived people that haven't really put much into the system for much of their lives)...does it simply subsidize them out of hand? I understand that is a large source of resentment in big healthcare countries. [/quote] First question, obvious answer: tax discrimination against hypochondriacs. The more you bother a doctor and he marks it down as essentially a needless visit taking up his time, the higher taxes on healthcare you pay on an exponential scale. Alternatively: if you go and you're not actually sick and didn't have a good reason to believe you were, you have to pay the full cost of the visit yourself. Immigrants, damned good question. That's one I'll leave for any implementors to handle because as an unemployed tech worker in the current time it is impossible for me to form an objective opinion about immigrants. My vote would always be 'screw the bastards and let 'em rot.' --SB[/quote] Surely you know H1Bs and overseas outsourcing have had virtually no effect on tech worker employment or wages......[/quote]