IT’S NOT ABOUT COST – IT’S ABOUT CARE

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What to Know: Writing in Roll Call, David Winston says that health care reforms such as the Affordable Care Act – and single-payer proposals like Medicare-for-all – are focused on costs, not care.

“Both parties continue to treat health care as purely an accounting problem, focused on the basic question of how to lower costs for average Americans,” he writes. “Rising health care costs are problematic, but even more challenging is the fact that people don’t see their health care as a commodity to be bought and sold. They see health care in very personal and unique terms, different from spending to buy a car or a new pair of shoes. This is why, under the current system, it has been difficult to get people to be more cost-conscious about health care decisions. Take a 50-year-old man with a failing heart. Unless he’s paying out of pocket — in which case price might be a bigger factor — he’s not likely to go for a cheaper procedure at Al’s Heart Transplant Barn rather than the best surgeon he can find, especially when insurance picks up the tab.”

The TPPF Take: Getting government accountants even more involved in health care decisions won’t make for a better system of delivering care.

“Faceless insurance actuaries and an anonymous government bureaucrats don’t know your medical history and they don’t care; their focus is on the bottom line,” says TPPF’s Dr. Deane Waldman. “It’s time to return decision-making authority to those to whom it rightfully belongs: you and your doctor.”

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