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> There's no reason for the government to know John Doe's enlarged prostate medication because that's between the doctor and patient. Unless the government is
by leereeves 9y ago
> There's no reason for the government to know John Doe's enlarged prostate medication because that's between the doctor and patient.
Unless the government is paying for it and expects to know exactly what it's paying for.
- JumpCrisscross 9y ago> the government is paying for it and expects to know exactly what it's paying for To embellish on this point, if you have a system where the government doesn't know what John Doe's healthcare providers are billing for and blindly cuts a cheque, expect to have lots of John Does having lots of very-expensive procedures.
- walshemj 9y agono in that case you have something like NICE in the Uk
- Panino 9y agoCertainly. Is this the case with Medicare, and if so, does the US federal govt. know what medications my Grandpa takes?
- linksnapzz 9y agoFedgov absolutely knows. HHS CMS does elaborate data-mining on providers that take gov't money to look for fraud.
- ameister14 9y agoWhich is why as an unintended side effect of the US instituting a single-payer healthcare system, abortion would become illegal.
- int_19h 9y agoOnly if it's federal single-payer, rather than state-by-state (the latter is quite possible - it's how Canada does it). And assuming the existing law wrt taxes and abortions stays in place, of course, which I doubt if we ever get close to the numbers necessary to pass federal single-payer.