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> There's no reason insurance companies need to be involved in health care at all. As a Brit I sort of agree, because I think free healthcare at point of deliv
by Ntrails 9y ago
> There's no reason insurance companies need to be involved in health care at all.
As a Brit I sort of agree, because I think free healthcare at point of delivery is the right solution. However the more continental model works perfectly well and many countries use private insurers for that sort of model. Insurance companies have a lot of expertise in risk management, analysis and costing so to claim that they've no place in healthcare is odd.
- beat 9y agoGetting far afield here, but... there's something uniquely broken about the financial model of the US system. Pretty much every industrialized nation in the world pays about half as much per capita as the US does for its health care, and pretty much all of them provide universal coverage. And this is everyone, from purely socialist systems to mostly private systems. Which is why I have issues with both the right-wing insistence that nothing is wrong with ours that a little more free market can't cure, and the left-wing insistence that only a purely socialist single payer system will provide financial responsibility and social justice.