What “non socialized” service area can delivery their service without question to the cost and qualityof the product being purchased?

Think about it. If you go to the grocery store, hardware store, restaurant, auto shop, etc., a major part of the process is evaluating the cost and quality of the product/service offered. Yet, in the health care industry, we have no idea what an office visit charge is in clinic A versus clinic B, C & D.

Secondly, when our judgment of quality service largely centers on the bedside manner of the physician and how long or short we had to wait to get in, then there is clearly a problem with access to quality of care in our decision making process.

This isn’t socialized health care? C’mon people, wake up. Before we move further into socialized health care, let’s implement the needed fix first – make health care providers compete for our services like the rest of American business has to do in order to survive!! Hit up your legislators with this mandate for change! This is something that could be done quickly and with bipartisonship approval since there’s no real political agenda beneath such a request. If done, I guarantee we will see a dramatic reduction in medical inflation cost when providers have to truly compete for our service.