Tyler Cowen Endorses Managed Care
Under the heading “Managed Care: Get Used to It,” he writes:
The question is not managed care versus the status quo, but which opportunities — and the restrictions that go with them — we are prepared to accept. When will we acknowledge that our government — or, for that matter, our insurance companies — can’t pay every bill? We’re in denial, and the longer we wait, the more painful the solution will be.
Tyler doesn’t know anything about health care. He proves that just about every time he writes on the subject.
This is Tyler (the libertarian???) Cowen who said this?
Let’s enroll Tyler in HMO and keep him there until he cries “HSA.”
Better yet, enroll him in Medicare, Medicaid, or the VA. The wait time to crying HSA might be shorter.
Prof. Cowen suggests that the British NHS provides “managed care” in the same sense that Kaiser Permanente or another U.S. HMO does. This is not the case (http://tinyurl.com/y9bvzkp, http://tinyurl.com/y9scl48). Indeed, the NHS has recently had a big PR emphasis on “choice”, i.e. that you don’t have to go to the specialist or hospital where your primary-care doc wants you to go (http://tinyurl.com/nlrxaq). Canada, which imposes the most monopolistic government control over access to medical services, uses fee-for-service in almost all cases.
sent the email to my Congressman and bluedogs. The bluedogs url is defective and didn’t go through. What a waste of time
What’s missing from the Marginal Revolution web site is any understanding of how the principle of marginalism applies to health care. And that is a really strange omission.
Here is a previous post on Tyler Cowen’s views on health care: http://www.john-goodman-blog.com/tyler-cowen-misses-the-mark/
Who says Tyler is libertarian?
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