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Maybe we shouldn't be funding healthcare on a profit-driven basis then.
by InitialLastName 9y ago
Maybe we shouldn't be funding healthcare on a profit-driven basis then.
- emodendroket 9y agoNo, probably not, but in the current conditions in the United States it's not like you have any choice as to whether you want to participate in for-profit medicine.
- ars 9y agoBeing a non-profit or a government would not help solve that. Those organization types are just as motivated to save money as for-profit is.
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- maxerickson 9y agoIn fact an awful lot of US health insurers are organized as non profits. A fair number of the Blue Cross/Blue Shield companies, for example.
- InitialLastName 9y agoI've heard a lot of complaints about government organizations. "Motivated to save money" isn't one of them.
- maxerickson 9y agoNot internally, but at least in the US you see lots of attempts to cut budgets of government programs. Even a modest budget cut could have a big impact on the level and quality of service of a government health system.
- ars 9y agoTons of government programs have wait lists because they don't have enough money. And other programs don't give people enough, because the program doesn't have enough to do so. Any government run healthcare would be money constrained the same way, and they would have to do exactly the same as the insurance companies to try to save money in order to have enough to at least give the impression of being fair to everyone. The issue here is not for-profit insurance companies, it's that there is no competition on the Doctor side of things, so costs just go up and up and up.
- emodendroket 9y agoEmpirically that doesn't seem to be the case.