Question: Should the government be involved in healthcare?
Esther Dyson: Personally it’s a very very complicated answer, I think they should definitely be there, as a last result and probably for Catastrophic Health Insurance but I think there is the question where should the government pay for healthcare and if you say yes to that and think you solve the problem you haven’t because the question will come for how much healthcare should they pay for should they pay for the 80 year old lady who is expected to stay alive in other six months should they pay for the liver transplant of the 40 year alcoholic should they pay for the operation on the guy who refused to wear a helmet in the motor cycle our resources are final and we need to do a much better job is figuring out where we spend them and where we done and right now, we make a lot of these decisions of people if you are black and poor chances are you are not going to get healthcare at if you are rich and white and even if you didn’t pay your insurance chances are you know somebody, who know somebody amount sign I sure you are going to get better cancer operation you live in Iowa and there is the certain operation that might cure you but they offered only in Seattle, you are probably not going to get that operation and we never going to have world of equality of outcome but we should at least have a world of the quality of opportunity and but we shouldn’t kid ourselves that every life is infinitely more valuable and anything else we make trait offs all the time and we don’t feed children right in school, and we destroy lives much earlier are they when they show of them a hospital and so at the problems is we don’t like confirm these decisions just is you might not like to conform decisions about that I mentioned early about your personal life we are the society feeling comfortable with explicit rules yet those things get adjudicated all the time, just quietly. And I didn’t really answer your question but I think at the day today care, people should pay their own costs, but the real issue is how to design a system then send of us healthy behavior because most of the healthcare costs in this country or due to either end of life or what is essentially the results of bad behavior, heart disease, lung cancer, diabetes, they are assigned that you being dead but they are aggravated by poor nutritional habits, lack of exercise all these things and if you could just get people to adopt much healthier lifestyles a medical cost with their down but I don’t particularly wanted the government monitoring what people lead either you said the challenge is had a change social noise without brain washing people. Let them understand their genetic information, educate them better at school and I mean it really the one that’s McDonald’s has a huge role the plan that’s just by what they offer people that if the food companies could start promoting genuinely healthy food rather than kind of what is it truthiness foodiness where you put chemicals into something and claim that its more healthy because its some kind of one piece of nutrition it like if you put please into something saying that is polite and this thing is still root, so its extremely complicated and more information is I start more information that the impact of that kind of food lead just as in the environment more information that the impact of that kinds of things we drive the stuff we use the cost of air-conditioning that kind of thing.
Recorded on: 03/21/2008
Discuss
Scott Underwood on May 12, 2008, 12:02 PM
That system would be easy to design. Forget about corporate and government input and only think about what sick people need. Decisions based on economics mainly take economics in consideration.
I still can't believe in a so called civilized world we have anyone making ANY PROFIT WHATSOEVER on the illness of other human beings. Pathetic!!
Scott Underwood on May 12, 2008, 4:02 PM
That system would be easy to design. Forget about corporate and government input and only think about what sick people need. Decisions based on economics mainly take economics in consideration.
I still can’t believe in a so called civilized world we have anyone making ANY PROFIT WHATSOEVER on the illness of other human beings. Pathetic!!
Simon-Pierre Lauzon on May 14, 2008, 4:31 AM
"do we want to pay for the head surgery of the guy who did not want to wear a helmet"
1st – Would you be the responsible one to tell that person's family that we were going to let him/her die?
2cnd – What kind of hospital would survey their patients to know the cause of their injuries before operating them. Nice contribution Diane.
Simon-Pierre Lauzon on May 14, 2008, 4:34 AM
The main problem here is that she is afraid of paying for the irresponsible person's medical bills.
THe problem is the cost of the mentality of the system, mainly the healthy person who gets categorized as irresponsible and does not get treatment. I would rather pay a little too much to help those who might deserve it less(although if you read my first comment I personally do not have such categories) in order to be sure that those who deserve it get their treatment.
As it is now, as the health care system is dictated by profit oriented enterprises, the less people we treat, the better.
Simon-Pierre Lauzon on May 14, 2008, 8:31 AM
“do we want to pay for the head surgery of the guy who did not want to wear a helmet”
1st – Would you be the responsible one to tell that person’s family that we were going to let him/her die?
2cnd – What kind of hospital would survey their patients to know the cause of their injuries before operating them. Nice contribution Diane.
Simon-Pierre Lauzon on May 14, 2008, 8:34 AM
The main problem here is that she is afraid of paying for the irresponsible person’s medical bills.
THe problem is the cost of the mentality of the system, mainly the healthy person who gets categorized as irresponsible and does not get treatment. I would rather pay a little too much to help those who might deserve it less(although if you read my first comment I personally do not have such categories) in order to be sure that those who deserve it get their treatment.
As it is now, as the health care system is dictated by profit oriented enterprises, the less people we treat, the better.
Rachele Antenucci on July 10, 2008, 2:17 PM
If the government can be involved in creating false flags/wars on nations which cost the tax payers money, why cannot they care for once about it's citizens and stop spending the tax money on genocide and grand theft and spend it on education and medical care for everyone??? Let's face it, this government really does not care about it's citizens and it does not care that it is killing the citizens of the nations it is robbing. Money talks and crime walks.
Rachele Antenucci on July 10, 2008, 6:17 PM
If the government can be involved in creating false flags/wars on nations which cost the tax payers money, why cannot they care for once about it’s citizens and stop spending the tax money on genocide and grand theft and spend it on education and medical care for everyone??? Let’s face it, this government really does not care about it’s citizens and it does not care that it is killing the citizens of the nations it is robbing. Money talks and crime walks.
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