NCPA president John Goodman provides five reasons why the health care “command and control” approach will not work. His conclusion should be enough to entice you read the details here.
As previously explained, every example we have of excellence in medical practice has originated on the supply side of the market ? usually in spite of, rather than because of, third-party reimbursement.
Common sense would seem to dictate that we learn from this
experience. Let?s free the doctors from the dysfunctional bureaucratic,
anti-patient environment they are currently trapped in. At least that
idea makes a lot more sense than subjecting them to the dictates of
academic economists.