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> Healthcare is a politically charged issue, right or wrong, listing that here discredits the message for half the readers. and regardless of what one thinks a
by sigstoat 7y ago
> Healthcare is a politically charged issue, right or wrong, listing that here discredits the message for half the readers.
and regardless of what one thinks about the issue, there is no way the US is passing sweeping legislation overhauling the whole system, and getting it implemented, in time to do any good at all in the current situation.
- maxerickson 7y agoYou don't need sweeping reform to bolster confidence in the healthcare system, a targeted emergency appropriation can go a long way. Congress saying they are going to pass a bill to pay for testing and then doing it would not be difficult, and it would reduce qualms about getting tests.
- HarryHirsch 7y agoWho is going to pay the bill for the massive run on hospitals that is going to take place in early May, if Italy is any guide? Unless the major health insurers have adequate reinsurance in place, they are going to go belly-up. Same with hospital providers, they are going to have to provide surge capacity, yet in the last 30 years they have been run by economists who have been trained in the just-in-time mindset. There will have to be a bailout, and the aftermath should mean nationalization. Public health has been neglected for far too long.
- guerrilla 7y ago> Who is going to pay the bill The people that have the money to do so.