The Observation Deck

One of the arguments for nationalized health care is that if government controlled the health care industry health care would be cheaper. Well, according to this article the cost of a university education at government run universities has increase nearly 100% in the past 8 years:

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/12 ... rsity.html

If the government cannot control the cost of college what makes you think that government can control the cost of medicine?

And anyway, why is it that that freshman English class should cost twice as much as it did 8 years ago?

The New York Times ran an interesting story about the cost of college:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/educa ... 73&ei=5087

Why is it that the cost of a college education is increasing at a faster rate than anything else?

When people say "they" should do something about the cost of college what people mean is that the government should send more money to the universities.

When I say that "they" should do something about the cost of college I mean that colleges should charge less.

So we should let GM FORD and CHRYSLER with their stellar records in the private sphere run colleges and medical care?

No Stan, I think Bill said in another recent thread that we should let GM, Chrysler and Ford go bankrupt.

By the way, one big cause of increasing college tuition is increasing financial aid. The more money you give students to defray the cost of college, the more tuition the colleges charge. One way to coerce colleges to limit tuition increases would be to limit financial aid.

in countries where higher education costs are basically paid for by the state/taxpayers, there are usually very higher admissions standards. the equivalent of K-12 hopefully arrange themselves along these lines.

we've got to many people going to college.

then there is professional creep. it is sort of like Mission Creep. whatever disadvantages labor Unions represent to "consumers" are doubly so with professional guilds (or defacto professional guilds) after too long. the Universities generally don't deal with the UAW. they might have a few boiler operators and mechanics. healthcare and education costs have consistently skyrocketed. the biggest advance appears to be in writing reports showcasing gains in productivity and efficiency while costs continue to skyrocket and service declines.

by the age of 18 the schools should know whether a student is best suited for University, a vocational course, or agricultural labor down south. you don't really need much more than a 10th grade education and experience to be the manager of a chain store or franchise store.