Posted on Thursday, 26th August 2010 by Charlotte W
How individuals view health care — in competitve market or managed care — could be at the core of the debate over the recently passed health care plan.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Although the legislative battle over health care is complete, the debate continues. Part of this debate stems from different ways of looking at the role of health care in our economy. N.C. State University economist Mike Walden summarizes the competing views.
“You are right … . I think although we do have a health care bill, and it is going to be implemented, I think the debate goes on.
And … really one of the sources for the debate is that people do really look at health care in different ways. On the one hand, I’ll call it the market view of health care, says, ‘Hey, health care is just like any other product or service. What you want people to do is go out and gather information look at prices and make decisions about the type of care that they want and are willing to pay for and can afford.’ And so in that case, if you think that is the system we should have, you want to have competition. You do want to have profit motivation, and you want people to be actively involved in making their own health care decisions.
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