Free market does it better than Medicare


One twentieth the price, one tenth the size, and it does more than the government alternative is "allowed" to do
Via Roughly Drafted, Prince McLean tells us about a New York Times article.

A lady found that a $300 iPhone and $150 software allowed her to speak just like a $9000 computer did, only the iPhone was handy and could do more out of the box.

Medicare would reimburse her for the computer (which had the "general computing tools" disabled), but would not reimburse her for the iPhone.

Both McLean and Ashlee Vance, the author of the NYT article, miss the point.

The story isn't that Medicare would pay for one and not the other, or that Obama's planned reforms would "fix" the problem (this time around).

No, the real story is that private companies would produce something at a twentieth the price and a tenth the size that would do everything the "approved" computer would do and more besides.

That's private companies doing the job without government funding, approval, direction, or much of anything from our wannabe overlords.

And next year, it's going to do more.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Sun - September 20, 2009 at 01:40 PM  Tag


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