Small Reforms to Improve the US Medical System by Jeffrey A. Tucker

Small Reforms to Improve the US Medical System - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity

The American system of medical-care delivery has no name. It is neither single payer nor based on private enterprise. It is a patchwork of cockamamie carrots and sticks, agencies and incentives, exceptions and accounting tricks, cajoles and punishments, cobbled together over some 50-100 years of legislation that itself was a product of pressure-group pushes, graft, loopholes, mandates, and subsidies.  It’s not even a clean public-private partner…

Small Reforms to Improve the US Medical System by Jeffrey A. Tucker

None of these eight reforms rub hard on ideological wounds. They can all be pursued without touching existing entitlement systems and legacy welfare provision. They would amount to the first major steps toward creating parallel systems of experimentation, all within the framework of the existing system. It seems like they should earn bipartisan support.

Small Reforms to Improve the US Medical System ⋆ Brownstone Institute

Small Reforms to Improve the US Medical System by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute The American system of medical-care delivery has no name. It is neither single payer nor based on private enterprise. It is a patchwork of cockamamie carrots and sticks, agencies and incentives, exceptions and accounting tricks, cajoles and punishments, cobbled together over some 50-100 years of legislation that itself was a product of pressure-group push…