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> And single payer will not solve this. If there is only one payer, and they refuse to pay your outrageous prices, you either lower your prices or you go out o
by burkaman 7y ago
> And single payer will not solve this.
If there is only one payer, and they refuse to pay your outrageous prices, you either lower your prices or you go out of business. Since a government-run payer does not have to make a profit, it is very easy to incentivize it to keep costs low.
- seibelj 7y agoIf you don’t forcibly ban doctors from opening up private, non-governmental clinics - and that means radically restricting individual freedom through the threat of violent force, which I assume would be unconstitutional - then doctors (or at least the good doctors) will decamp to the private sector only.
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- burkaman 7y agoPrivate sector medicine is legal in the UK. Why isn't this a problem there?