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Tilted Cat Head
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Originally Posted by loquitur
Willravel, I remain to be persuaded that the cost benefits you're touting are likely to materialize (the French system runs deficits, for example), particularly outside the very short term. But even assuming that in terms of cash outlays, there will be some reduction of overall cost, at a certain point the rigidity built into the system will almost certainly affect it negatively, as it does almost every single government program ever invented - and severely degrade it after a relatively short adjustment period (certainly less than 10 years). Govt bureaucracies simply are not flexible, not adaptable, and highly resistant to being made so. Ever has it been so, ever will it be - which was the point of my post up above in #263.
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exactly well stated and pointed out in my own post about Icelandic healthcare #230
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Sigursteinn Másson, chairman of the Organization of Handicapped in Iceland (OHI), agrees. “I know many employees within the health sector feel bad about charging high sums to people who often have little money,” Másson said. That’s why hospital staff often recommends unnecessary hospitalization, he explained.
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One can easily look at the shiny exterior of the program, but peel away the veneer and you'll see it's just as mechanical, complex, and expensive as any other.
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