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Agreed. I think it's a little damaging to use that word. If it requires someone else to provide it - it's NOT a right because that would infringe on another's
by exclusiv 10y ago
Agreed. I think it's a little damaging to use that word.
If it requires someone else to provide it - it's NOT a right because that would infringe on another's rights. It's that simple.
It may be the right thing to do to provide it inexpensively, however.
At the same time - so many people don't exercise, eat crap, get obese and diabetes or other preventable diseases and then overload the system with expenses. I'm not sure how you solve this issue.
- clavalle 10y agoMe neither, not completely anyway. But there are dozens of things I think might help. -Make medical debt non-dischargeable if you incur it without insurance. (Encourage everyone to make an accurate accounting of the risk they are putting on themselves and the system without insurance). -Require price lists of common procedures and tests from providers. (Competition on price). -Close the medicaid gap. -Publish insurance standards and require providers to accept all insurance that meet those standards. (This would allow smaller players into the insurance market spurring competition -- it would also be very difficult to pull off -- perhaps tie it to providers that get federal money in some way). -Incentivise staying healthy by giving rebates for good health. -Incentivise not using health care by giving rebates for not using it over some period of time. -Incentivise shopping around by giving rebates based on finding providers/treatments/prescriptions that are below the average. Penalize those that are above some threshold by dinging future rebates. And on and on. I don't think there is one solution. I think we need to try a bunch of things and keep what works.