2 ms·
Coming from a country with single-payer healthcare: If you have have 5 beds, and 10 people that need to use a bed every day, there is no pure finance managemen
by dpc_pw 10y ago
Coming from a country with single-payer healthcare:
If you have have 5 beds, and 10 people that need to use a bed every day, there is no pure finance management solution to solve it.
If you have insurance-based system like in US, only people who can afford insurance will be able to use the beds. Rest will be priced-out.
If you have single-payer system like in my country of origin (and what a lot of people in America would want), people will be queued and/or to some extent squeezed to fit on what's available. It often leads to corruption, when people pay extra to cut the line. Or there are some officially approved way to pay your way to get your bed fast and without overcrowding.
The reality is of course a bit more complicated, but the point is: the real solution is to either have more beds, or to have less people who need to use them. Why can't more beds be built and operated cheaply? Why there is so many people needing them?
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoIf you have have 5 beds, and 10 people that need to use it every day, there is no financial solution to solve it. One financial solution would be to fund construction of the infrastructure to house the beds and fund the operational expenditure to run them. I would guess the reasons this doesn't happen are primarily political.
- joshpadnick 10y ago> The real solution is to either have more beds, or to have less people who need to use them. This is exactly the incentives we've wanted all along. Is healthcare too expensive to cover everyone's current level of need? Now it finally makes sense for government to get serious about investing in prevention. Our current incentives of "the more sick-care you provide, the more you get paid" has exactly the opposite incentive. No solution is perfect, but this feels like a significant step in the right direction.