“Like the trucking industry and the airlines, that must be the first step. ”
Though I shudder to imagine what health care would be like if it adopted the customer-service standards of an outfit like, say, US Airways. Though Kaiser Permanente does come pretty close.
Anyway, the reality is that there will always be some kind of triage in health-care delivery. Proponents of 100% private insurance advocate triage based on ability to pay — or, to put it the crudest terms, survival of the richest. Single-payer systems are forced to practice triage based on availability of resource. Under both systems, people die unnecessarily.
The only difference is that under the pay-to-play scenario outlined above, only the “deserving” will receive medical care. So who gets to play God and decide who “deserves” to live or die?
