http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/01/10/matthew-holt/abundance-is-insulated-from-a-crisis%e2%80%94for-now/ Big Ideas for a Better World Sat, 22 Nov 2008 09:41:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.cato-unbound.org/2007/01/10/matthew-holt/abundance-is-insulated-from-a-crisis%e2%80%94for-now/#comment-22296 How sick am I, exactly? « ZenPolitics Wed, 10 Jan 2007 19:56:00 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/?p=378#comment-22296 [...] I don’t know what type of contribution this entry is going to make to Matthew Holt’s Reaction Essay, but one part in particular jumped out at me–whether it is possible for consumers, if paying for health care services at an individual level, to make informed decisions.  If you follow Kling’s model and go with insurance rather than insulation, the consumer still has threshold decisions to make regarding care.  We can’t all be like Uncle Mort and not go to the doctor ever until you die of old age at 102. [...] [...] I don’t know what type of contribution this entry is going to make to Matthew Holt’s Reaction Essay, but one part in particular jumped out at me–whether it is possible for consumers, if paying for health care services at an individual level, to make informed decisions.  If you follow Kling’s model and go with insurance rather than insulation, the consumer still has threshold decisions to make regarding care.  We can’t all be like Uncle Mort and not go to the doctor ever until you die of old age at 102. [...]

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