4 ms·

The seemingly (to me) crazy thing is that private insurance in places with single payer healthcare aren’t like this at all. Our entire insurance bill for everyt

The seemingly (to me) crazy thing is that private insurance in places with single payer healthcare aren’t like this at all. Our entire insurance bill for everything from healthcare to house insurance for a family of four is less than a quarter of that. There’s even pretty affordable private GP clinics where I’d never even think about using my insurance. It’s reasonably common to have private healthcare insurance for unexpected events even in places with national health services. I’ve had it variously through work, unions and now as a private individual. Typically you want it to make up the difference between the level of provided state support and what you’d lose by not working. Personally I’d rather than private insurance and healthcare industry wasn’t necessary but the American debate seems polarised into either/or rather than realising that it’s very common for private healthcare to coexist and be part of nationalised healthcare systems.

gremlinsinc 7y ago
Part of the administrative savings though is the fact that $0 dollars is spent to essentially what amounts to 'billing' agencies. Every $ spent on medical billers in hospitals, lawyers contesting claims, etc... can better be spent inside hospitals and research labs, etc.. John Oliver said basically our plan does go above and beyond all other plans, covers more, etc... so it's basically the utopia of plans. Of course it's probably better to start at utopia and get semi-utopia than start at the public option and only get the public option. I can see maybe something bigger to cover things like maybe subsidies for fertility which my wife's really concerned about - because there's a LOT of emotional depression related to that, and maybe even adoption which sort of ties into fertility. Though, I'd definitely be happy w/ lesser I mean what we have now is murderous.

gremlinsinc 7y ago

Part of the administrative savings though is the fact that $0 dollars is spent to essentially what amounts to 'billing' agencies. Every $ spent on medical billers in hospitals, lawyers contesting claims, etc... can better be spent inside hospitals and research labs, etc.. John Oliver said basically our plan does go above and beyond all other plans, covers more, etc... so it's basically the utopia of plans. Of course it's probably better to start at utopia and get semi-utopia than start at the public option and only get the public option. I can see maybe something bigger to cover things like maybe subsidies for fertility which my wife's really concerned about - because there's a LOT of emotional depression related to that, and maybe even adoption which sort of ties into fertility. Though, I'd definitely be happy w/ lesser I mean what we have now is murderous.