Comments on: Questions – Medicine http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/7555.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Fri, 25 May 2012 22:07:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: TMLutas http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/7555.html/comment-page-1#comment-323796 TMLutas Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:53:51 +0000 http://chicagoboyz.net/?p=7555#comment-323796 It really is only going to be your choice when you are rich enough to self-insure. Any other arrangement will lead to somebody else butting in and saying at some point 'not with (my|our|the people's) money. Unless we imitate Canada (unlikely at this point) and ban private medicine, the ultra-rich will have this. No country is rich enough that even the poor could have this choice today. America has a special responsibility because our free-riding socialized medicine fellow members of the community of nations gave us that role. The medicine is expensive therefore more is developed here under our present legal rules, than is otherwise normal. If we join the socialized medicine crowd, money will flow away from medicine research because of lower rates of return and the rate of improvement will slow. By my best information about 1/3 of the homeless are mentally ill off their meds and a significant number of them cycle into the justice system as well. This is a tremendous problem that is the worst of both worlds, inhumane and expensive. Perhaps we should reopen those mental hospitals, at least some of them, to improve matters? It really is only going to be your choice when you are rich enough to self-insure. Any other arrangement will lead to somebody else butting in and saying at some point ‘not with (my|our|the people’s) money. Unless we imitate Canada (unlikely at this point) and ban private medicine, the ultra-rich will have this. No country is rich enough that even the poor could have this choice today.

America has a special responsibility because our free-riding socialized medicine fellow members of the community of nations gave us that role. The medicine is expensive therefore more is developed here under our present legal rules, than is otherwise normal. If we join the socialized medicine crowd, money will flow away from medicine research because of lower rates of return and the rate of improvement will slow.

By my best information about 1/3 of the homeless are mentally ill off their meds and a significant number of them cycle into the justice system as well. This is a tremendous problem that is the worst of both worlds, inhumane and expensive. Perhaps we should reopen those mental hospitals, at least some of them, to improve matters?

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