How do you get folks to value something when there is no explicit value? We think we have it bad now, let's look forward to the golden age coming up when President Kerry finally delivers us our guaranteed right to health care (you know, like John Locke and David Hume always go on about).
It might look a little like the UK, where Alex Singleton reports:
Missed appointments with GPs cost the NHS more than £162m a year. So it is not surprising that a new survey indicates that almost two thirds of GPs favour fines for those who miss appointments. In today's Daily Express, I argue that a fee to see a GP would solve the problem of the 9m missed GP appointments, encouraging people to value their GP's time rather more, and also make for a better GP-patient relationship. Read the full article here.