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Where's the remainder of your premium going to come from when you're only paying 10% salary for it? Private insurance companies sure aren't going to reduce thei
by Domenic_S 7y ago
Where's the remainder of your premium going to come from when you're only paying 10% salary for it? Private insurance companies sure aren't going to reduce their prices.
- ceejayoz 7y agoCan we stop pretending the rest of the developed world doesn't exist? The per-capita healthcare spending of Europe, public and private, is about half what ours is with similar health outcomes. We are an extreme outlier. https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm The remainder of the premium stops going into the pockets of insurance middlemen.
- Domenic_S 7y ago> the premium stops going into the pockets of insurance middlemen. This just replaces one middleman (insurance co) for another (government). I can tell by the downvotes that my point whooshed over everyone's head -- my point was essentially yours. Changing who pays isn't going to change anything. We have to change what gets charged.
- ceejayoz 7y ago> We have to change what gets charged. This is substantially easier to do in a single-payer style system.