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I can support letting the bottom fall out like this provided we had full single payer coverage for everyone. Any additional coverage can then be whatever you wa
by newjersey 10y ago
I can support letting the bottom fall out like this provided we had full single payer coverage for everyone. Any additional coverage can then be whatever you want with the only protection from law being protection from false advertising.
I can also support removing the ama-fia's control on licenses but I'm afraid we'll just replace it with something similar when it comes to which providers are eligible to reimbursements from the new single payer healthcare system.
- marcoperaza 10y agoMy idea is that these catastrophic insurance plans would be affordable by anyone with their basic income. Debt financing could cover anything below the deductible, for the indigent. Getting such loans would also be easier because of the UBI. Again, people would be financially responsible for their own healthcare, which restores sane incentives, but it wouldn't be possible for it to financially destroy them. No need for a single payer system if this works as I envision it.
- mapt 10y ago"Debt financing" and plans that may be absent or sometimes cover nothing much, is the dystopian nightmare we're trying to escape. Healthcare is not a normal consumer good subject to normal pricing pressures and amenable to substitutes. Single payer works extremely well.
- 0606hn 10y agoAs I stated in a response to the parent commenter, the AMA does not control the number of medical school seats/new physicians in the country. Indeed, medical licensing is done by the states and is not a federal process.