Health Care Economics (free-market, opposes Big Medicine)

This video is a 2018 narration of a 2014 presentation given by Edward Harshman at a summer camp for children. The camp had (and still has) instruction on liberty and conservative principles and a strong emphasis on God and Christianity.

When Edward Harshman gave the presentation, three pastors were in the audience (as were many children). All three pastors asked for and got a copy of the slideshow from which the presentation was based. The original presentation was recorded and the recording unfortunately lost, but the slideshow was not and it was in 2018 converted into a video, which this is.

Topics covered:

The definition of health care
The failure of macroeconomics
Health care as a service and the effects of overhead (fixed cost)
Regulations including the damage done by HCQIA
The case for educating patients in health-care matters
How regulations enrich Big Medicine and inflict bad, not just expensive, health care on the rest of us
Price discrimination and medical insurance as a bargaining agent
Why liberals and Big Business want high health care costs
The great monetary risk of acquiring a medical education
The dual-reimbursement model for health care reimbursement
The case for health-care scrip
The seriously ill and the life-or-death decision
The case against securities underwriters and how they cheat the stockholders
A solution to the pre-existing condition problem of health insurance
The case against mutual and pension funds: how they drive prices up including for health care
The case for wheelchair sports and other education reforms
The bias in modern continuing medical education for physicians
The danger of brittle cordiality
The need for awareness and personal responsibility

This presentation is probably more suited to older children and adults than to young children. But if you are a child, watch it anyway.