The Club of Cos

Epistemological Rehabilitation for Healthcare

September 11, 2009 7:22 am

Ration Healthcare? Of course.

Yes. There will be rationing of healthcare. There always has been.

Individuals and families used to ration their consumption of healthcare. If the cost of care was greater than their savings, they went without.

Since healthcare has been financed through social insurance schema, rationing is now performed by middle management.

Healthcare delivered via government programs is rationed by bureacrats.

If you want more “coverage” (more people covered, more conditions covered), you’re going to have to accept more rationing.

As for me, I’ll take less “coverage”. I’ll ration my own care up to the first $10,000.

I think everyone could use less middle management and less bureacracy in their lives.