Comments on: How Health Care Changed While You Were Watching the Election https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/11/01/how-health-care-changed-while-you-were-watching-the-election/ Everything you always wanted to know about the Health Care system. But were afraid to ask. Thu, 01 Dec 2022 20:31:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.4 By: BobbyG https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/11/01/how-health-care-changed-while-you-were-watching-the-election/#comment-292851 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:38:03 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=53987#comment-292851 In reply to Margalit Gur-Arie.

Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner.

]]> By: Chris https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/11/01/how-health-care-changed-while-you-were-watching-the-election/#comment-292823 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:11:05 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=53987#comment-292823 Why shouldn’t individuals carry more responsibility for their healthcare costs? In a world of exploding health spending, that seems like a good reform to me.

]]> By: Margalit Gur-Arie https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2012/11/01/how-health-care-changed-while-you-were-watching-the-election/#comment-292733 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:42:01 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=53987#comment-292733 So basically, health care expenditures are increasingly being shifted to individuals, while decision making is increasingly shifted to corporations (health systems and employers), and prices for services are increasing through consolidation of providers’ market power.
And we refer to this as the road to reform. Road to perdition seems more apt.

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