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I get that now. I didn’t understand it for a long time. While a government-run universal care program doesn’t thrill me, I find the current employer-based syst
by burlesona 7y ago
I get that now. I didn’t understand it for a long time.
While a government-run universal care program doesn’t thrill me, I find the current employer-based system to be borderline immoral.
The more I deal with the system the more it strikes me as a corrupt, crony deal to make workers more dependent on their employer, depress wages, and drive up medical industry profits.
- TomMckenny 7y agoIt will also benefit lower income employees and consumers who will see good wage/price changes relative to taxes. Another possibility is a cap on drug profits declining with drug age. This will allow enough market to avoid having to guess production costs in advance and set them in stone. The drawback is incentives to efficiency. Perhaps a mixture of price cap and profit cap would hit the sweet spot.
- aplummer 7y ago“Borderline” immoral? Unemployed people doing gofundme’s for insulin...
- sdenton4 7y agoMy partner and I have, for the last couple months, been going through the medical system hoops over a broken elbow and resulting surgery. We've fiiiiinally started getting the bills in, along with the 'Explanation of Benefits', and so far 100% of the bills have included a patient-oriented error. And then spent many many hours on the phone getting them corrected. It's goddamn criminal. [edit: it's also 'fun' to think how much harder it would have been to identify the bad charges prior to the ACA's explanation of benefits requirements.]