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It’s time for a ‘new Medicare’ : Comments
By John Humphreys, published 22/10/2009Allowing open competition in health would decrease administration costs and result in higher quality, more efficient health care.
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We have already had almost two decades of cost effectiveness and improved effeciencies.
We now have 38% fewer public hospital beds than we had in 1985.
Anybody who says that increased competition will lead to reduced costs and improved service in the health care sector is either delusional or has no understanding that economic theory simply does not work for health.
The is one exception and that is the act of passive euthansia. Simply by either denying or making health care unavailable to certain groups of people will ongoing costs be reduced.
<The marketplace ideology which gives their activities legitimacy is powerful and all pervasive. Despite alarming insights which challenge the validity of market theory in health care, economists and politician continue to impose new marketplace solutions to the problems created by previous marketplace solutions.>
http://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/dissent/documents/health/central.html
Case in point is that at the moment the NSW government is trying to reduce staffing levels, at a time when there is an increasing demand for health care services, which then leads to increased waiting times, and a decrease in the standard of care. And still cost will increase.