Advocates of socialized medicine ask the wrong questions about consumer-driven health care

The debate over socialized medicine (universal health care) and market driven (consumer-driven health care) continues over at The Health Care Blog.

Opponents of consumer-driven health care, or freer health insurance markets, try to show that consumers aren’t equipped to select providers or medical treatments, which is pretty much a given and irrelevant to the debate. What’s relevant is that consumers would do a much better job of selecting health insurance plans than their employers or government bureaucrats or politicians would be. Nobody manages your money better than you do, and consumers would do a better job of buying the health plans that meet their needs than any employers, advisers or self-appointed experts.

Read the blog and the comments that follow. Pretty interesting even if there is nothing really new there.

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