[jamesrom]

> It's significantly more wicked to pretend that tests, treatments, and more aren't done by healthcare workers (yes, even private ones), and to inundate them with unimportant medical procedures while truly sick people are dying.

Strawman+ad hominem. No one is suggesting to pretend _anything_. Charge premiums for these tests based on how "unimportant" they are. Use market forces to move money from those willing to pay, to those who cannot.

[kulahan]

Actually neither - you were suggesting that money makes the problem valid. It doesn't. You can charge all you want - it either becomes useless (why are we trying to find ways to get more profit to hospitals???) or it reduces the staff who are better suited to go somewhere else.

This is an unbelievably inefficient way to try and move money to those who need it. The market correction should be elsewhere.