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It’s too bad neoliberals like Klobuchar and Buttigieg are using republican talking points to scare the left from pursing Medicare for all. Bernie or Warren are

It’s too bad neoliberals like Klobuchar and Buttigieg are using republican talking points to scare the left from pursing Medicare for all. Bernie or Warren are the only options. We need to fundamentally change so many aspects of our society and half-measures aren’t going to do anything but protect the broken status quo.

dantheman 7y ago
Half measures definitely will not fix the problem. The only way we can make progress on this issue is to fix the problem of transparency on costs, billing, and payments. Right now it's impossible to make any sort of realistic policy proposals because we don't have access to the fundamental data. One thing that concerns me about "medicare for all" is that from a lot of things I've read hospitals that have too many medicare patients go out of business -- what's really going on? Also, another key issue we need to address is the fundamental costs; we can perhaps lower the bar needed to administer healthcare -- if the error rate goes up a little but is offset by access and earlier interventions we could big improvements. Right now we are pretending that we have one standard of care and it's high and expensive; but we really have two high or almost nothing. Perhaps theres room for a medium quality of care that is backstop so that no one gets nothing.
- watersb 7y ago
  I have yet to dig into why, but our local hospital told me that they had not been paid for any Medicare expenses for more than three years. The claims were processed, approved, but funds not released. Like a client who is going to pay you any day now...
- Can_Not 7y ago
  > The only way we can make progress on this issue is to fix the problem of transparency on costs, billing, and payments. Is anyone actually running on this? Otherwise MFA is simple for the end user and superior to "more options" that nobody can afford or HSA that only benefits people who didn't need it.

dantheman 7y ago

Half measures definitely will not fix the problem. The only way we can make progress on this issue is to fix the problem of transparency on costs, billing, and payments. Right now it's impossible to make any sort of realistic policy proposals because we don't have access to the fundamental data. One thing that concerns me about "medicare for all" is that from a lot of things I've read hospitals that have too many medicare patients go out of business -- what's really going on? Also, another key issue we need to address is the fundamental costs; we can perhaps lower the bar needed to administer healthcare -- if the error rate goes up a little but is offset by access and earlier interventions we could big improvements. Right now we are pretending that we have one standard of care and it's high and expensive; but we really have two high or almost nothing. Perhaps theres room for a medium quality of care that is backstop so that no one gets nothing.

watersb 7y ago
I have yet to dig into why, but our local hospital told me that they had not been paid for any Medicare expenses for more than three years. The claims were processed, approved, but funds not released. Like a client who is going to pay you any day now...
Can_Not 7y ago
> The only way we can make progress on this issue is to fix the problem of transparency on costs, billing, and payments. Is anyone actually running on this? Otherwise MFA is simple for the end user and superior to "more options" that nobody can afford or HSA that only benefits people who didn't need it.