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• Politics behind it • Page 838, • (Doctors Grade for approved care) • Single payer.
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Glenn Reynolds argues that the wait lines for treatments in a single-payer system are not the biggest concern. In a Washington Examiner column, Glenn relates personal stories of how his family members have benefited from innovation in medical treatments, and how the market plays a big role in providing incentives for it. When government makes all the decisions on health care, will those same incentives exist? ...... It should be pointed out that governments fund medical research as well, but those funds tend towards politically-expedient research on issues where private incentives don't exist. That's one of the reasons why people pushed so hard for federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research. The private sector had focused on adult stem-cell research as more effective and promising for actual treatments, leaving hEsc studies to wither.
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