Third-Party Payer is the Biggest Economic Problem With America’s Health Care System
Published on Jul 10, 2012
This mini-documentary from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation explains that “third-party payer” is the main problem with America’s health care system. This is why undoing Obamacare, while desirable, is just a small first step if we want to reduce costs and boost efficiency
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I have put up lots of cartoons from Dan Mitchell’s blog before and they have got lots of hits before. Many of them have dealt with the economy, eternal unemployment benefits, socialism, Greece, welfare state or on gun control.
These cartoons are sad but true.
Obamacare May Be a Joke, but We’re Paying a Heavy Price for some Amusing Cartoons
March 30, 2013 by Dan Mitchell
I’m not sure why political cartoonists have been revisiting the issue of Obamacare in recent days, but I’ve been enjoying their humor.
I shared three funny cartoons a couple of days ago, adding to my collection of Obamacare humor (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here).
Now let’s enjoy three more, beginning with this gem from Lisa Benson.
Though we shouldn’t laugh at this cartoon. As we saw with both Medicaid and Medicare, entitlement programs routinely cost far more than original projections.
If you somehow think Obamacare might be different, watch this video.
Gary Varvel hits a different part of Obamacare, noting that the President’s promise of lower premiums is an utter fantasy.
And Michael Ramirez looks at the big picture.
I want to close with an optimistic point about the prospect of changing this terrible law.
Thanks to government programs and other forms of regulation and intervention, we had a bad healthcare system before Obamacare.
And even though it was government that was causing the system to malfunction, many people blamed the free market. And the President took advantage of that misunderstanding to push he legislation.
So now we have Obamacare, which has made the system a bit more statist.
But most people think Obamacare was much bigger than it actually was, with some actually thinking we used to have a free market!
Anyway, this flawed perception works to our advantage since it will now be possible to blame any bad news in the healthcare world on Obamacare.
As such, I expect that Obamacare will remain unpopular.
The real question will be whether reformers will rally behind proposals to not just repeal Obamacare, but to actually restore a free market.
If you want to understand what needs to happen, I encourage you to watch two short videos, one from Reason TV and the other from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity.
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