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>Why? It's all about the pre-existing conditions. Yes this is what both sides of the aisles won't admit. You can't have 20% of the people use 80% of the servic
by hiram112 10y ago
>Why? It's all about the pre-existing conditions.
Yes this is what both sides of the aisles won't admit. You can't have 20% of the people use 80% of the services and make things fair without forcing the users to eat the costs.
Same things with:
1. The US (like most Western countries) has a huge post WWII baby boom now approaching old age. The younger generations will have to pay for this.
2. The US refuses to allow chronically sick and dying patients to let death takes it course, managed only with pain killers. Instead, vast amounts of money (some say 80% - there's that number again) are spent on the last year of a person's life carrying out procedures that only prolong a few more painful months, with no chance for recovery.
The costs could be reduced by taking away some of the huge profits of the medical and pharmaceutical industries. But in the end, there will need to be societal changes.