Private healthcare done right
In order to volunteer with kids at the local writing centre, I needed to get a TB test. A quick search for the nearest place that would conduct such a test for me revealed the existence of what looked like an excellent example of private healthcare at its finest. Curious, I decided to pony up the $30 and find out how well they work in practise.
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I agree. They offer a wonderful service, and I find myself wishing that firms offered a similar service everywhere I live.
About Universal Health care and the ability of government planners to create a harmony of incentives:
Not going to happen. Universal health care suffers from the free-rider problem in every aspect. It encourages people who have time to wait in lines to get every possible treatment they can justify, clogging the systems faster than you can say "Supersize me!". Also, targetted taxes designed to influence behavour pushes way to far into government becoming obvious rulership for me to feel comfortable. It's is the most slippery of slopes. I am not looking forward to the day when video games receive extra taxes to cover the treatment of epilepsy and "gamer's thumb".
Preventative healthcare is a particular way of saving for the future; in that it has present costs and future rewards. People should be free to invest as much, or as little, as they want for their health, and they will reap their own rewards either way.
Also, there is already appearing a class of health-counselors. These professionals combine the roles of personal physician, personal trainer, and nutritionist, to help you live healthy. What this career grow so that, eventually, pretty much everyone who wants one and is not poor, has one.
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