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Do professional licensure, third-party reimbursement, and nonprofit organization make it easier or harder to adjust health care spending to changes in prices?
Which is more important in determining how much to spend on medical care: how sick people are or how much money is available?
Why do general tax revenues pay for so much personal health care? Who will pay if (when?) the Medicare trust fund runs out of money?
Does inflation affect health care spending? If so, does it affect health care spending permanently or temporarily?
Do people vote for what is good for society or what is good for themselves?
Is medical care for homeless and terminally ill AIDS patients a public good or a waste of money?
Why are new surgical techniques developed with public funds whereas pharmaceutical research and development is conducted privately by for-profit firms?
Why pay for cost-benefit analysis to decide which public programs are worthwhile instead of using prices to let the market decide?
Do the preferences of smokers, patients who are mentally ill, or unborn children count when assessing the efficiency of the public health system?
Does the Food and Drug Administration, or any other agency that regulates health, operate in the interest of the public, in the interest of the people who work there, or for the special-interest lobbies?
