The latest proposal I’ve heard is nothing but a government-sponsored way to hand over even more money to insurance companies.

OTOH I do not like either of the proposed systems, certainly mot as much as the present one. And when I see “Private Delivery” as the heading of the chart I immediately see egregious slanting. Medicare and Medicaid (and various more “local” State systems) are supposed to work this way, in that medical personnel/facilities are not formally part of the government[s]. But much like non-government plans they must follow rules from these fund-providers, but government is far slower (often by decades) to update the rules – and even slower to update compensation when costs change.

Mind you, I am covered by Medicare and Medicaid myself, and at under $18k/annum income am grateful for it. But when I look at the plans and administration thereof in other countries I fear more government intervention.

Apparently one big deal is that it’s so much more efficient than the current system, it’ll throw a couple of million people working for the insurance industry out of work.

Two things about that: Throwing people out of work doesn’t seem to worry the powers-that-be much in any other context. If joblessness is the problem, come up with job training and transition packages for them and everyone else in that situation!

What you’re really talking about is teaching quality, which isn’t the same thing as school administrations stopping science classes.

It is related, though, because they’re both really about money. Classes, but especially science classes, cost money. You get good teachers when a) they’re paid enough, b) class sizes are small enough so that they can do more than crowd control, c) their workloads are not overwhelming and they can pay attention to individual students. Oh, and they don’t have some official with no knowledge of subject matter or teaching telling them what to teach. All that *really* costs money.

So I’m not convinced that the problems in schools caused by underfunding can be solved by giving them less funding.

Why are we supposed to pay the taxes to pay the salaries of educators that don’t know physics?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXAerZUw4Wc