View Single Post
Unread 7 Jul 2009, 10:50   #10
Alessio
deserves a medal
 
Alessio's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 1,211
Alessio is a pillar of this Internet societyAlessio is a pillar of this Internet societyAlessio is a pillar of this Internet societyAlessio is a pillar of this Internet societyAlessio is a pillar of this Internet societyAlessio is a pillar of this Internet societyAlessio is a pillar of this Internet societyAlessio is a pillar of this Internet societyAlessio is a pillar of this Internet societyAlessio is a pillar of this Internet societyAlessio is a pillar of this Internet society
Re: Is Bigger Government Better

Quote:
Originally Posted by dda View Post
The problem with this is that more often comes at the expense of quality.
This might apply to most fields and some loss in efficiency can always be expected, but I think the medical field can cope with it pretty well, as European health care isn't exactly lacking in quality. I'm not exactly sure why this is the case though. Perhaps because the medical field has a quite clear direction which the professionals should work towards, curing the patiënt. And private corporations supply the means to do exactly that. When it comes to education it's also very possible to simply ask the workfield which things should be taught to the students. Schools themselves don't really need a lot of innovation to keep providing quality services. In both cases the actual innovations are done by private organisations.

But when we talk about making health care accessable then we proberbly can't really make a one on one comparison between Europe and the United States anyway, as I can see some problems unique to the US when implementing universal health care. We have constrained the salaries of medical specialists, while the salaries and costs are soaring in the United States. The Universal Health Care will proberbly operate under the current conditions of the private market and vastly increase the demand, which might become a costly practise.

Also, in western Europe the gap between rich and poor is relatively small compared to the United States. And the most poor area's (eastern Europe) do not have universal health care or have a seperate universal health care system from ours. So it's likely that you will have to carry the weight of a lot of poor people.

I am very curious about how it will all work out if Obama implements it.
Quote:
Even in education, students from equal backgrounds who go to privately owned schools tend to have much greater success in school and in college than those in government run schools. Much of this is attributable to the constraints placed on individual schools by government regulations. This, despite the HIGHER per student amount spent on government schools.
Well, if the problem doesn't lie with the students but with the schools themselves, as you say, then public schools could just exchange expertise with private schools.
__________________
"I have with me two gods, Persuasion and Compulsion."

Last edited by Alessio; 7 Jul 2009 at 20:22.
Alessio is offline   Reply With Quote