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Insurance companies are the problem. Single payer + Universal Healthcare is the answer because it will eliminate insurance companies from the equation and get u
by ypeterholmes 9y ago
Insurance companies are the problem. Single payer + Universal Healthcare is the answer because it will eliminate insurance companies from the equation and get us back towards actual cost and remove this threat that hangs over all of us.
- refurb 9y agoYou realize that countries like Switzerland and Singapore have private insurance companies, universal coverage and reasonable costs? That would suggest insurance companies are not the problem.
- dv_dt 9y agoSwitzerland does however have government set drug and procedure prices even if private insurance companies manage the billing. They are also one of the more expensive of the developed universal healthcare nations - though still significantly more efficient than the US system.
- ohples 9y agoThey are also very small countries compared to the US
- cgmg 9y agoWhy do you think that's relevant? In any case, the same point would apply in the other direction.
- doomjunky 9y agoI see a problem in the US system, the insurance companies have two options to make profit, (1) drain the insured people and (2) negotiale the the medical providers. This puts insurance companies in a very privileged position. This is why the insurance companies are the problem. Germany for example has a national "public" health insurance system and a private insurance system. The national health insurance system is based on an tax-based insurance font. For the public insurance sector this font is the only one (!) allowed source of income for the insurance companies. This means the companies can not drain the insured persons, they have to negotiate prices with the medical providers.