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imagine what this population would do to the budget and _resources_ of a single payer system. it's bad news for everyone.
by sigstoat 7y ago
imagine what this population would do to the budget and _resources_ of a single payer system.
it's bad news for everyone.
- claudeganon 7y agoSouth Korea seems to be doing fine.
- sigstoat 7y agoyou were addressing the costs. we'll yet see what the costs to South Korea, and Italy, and all the other countries are. even if single payer is magically wonderful, it doesn't necessarily make a natural disaster like this cheaper to deal with.
- claudeganon 7y ago>even if single payer is magically wonderful, it doesn't necessarily make a natural disaster like this cheaper to deal with. But...it does? Healthcare is more expensive across the board in the US than South Korea. If all the same care was delivered in the US as has and will be in South Korea, it would still be more expensive in the US. This is like arguing that a hundred of one thing that costs five dollars in South Korea is the same as a 100 of one thing that costs ten dollars in the US.
- sigstoat 7y agohttps://randomcriticalanalysis.com/why-conventional-wisdom-on-health-care-is-wrong-a-primer https://randomcriticalanalysis.com/why-conventional-wisdom-o...
- claudeganon 7y agoRespectfully, this is just nonsense. Japan has a nationwide fee schedule that’s enforced across the board and they’re a wealthy country, with a lot of people, that consume a lot of healthcare under a single payer system. Still cheaper and with better outcomes.
- rcafdm 7y agoOutcomes are determined by more than health system inputs alone (indeed, it has little to do with health care in the developed world), and costs have much to do with the intensity of health care. Rich countries spend more because they can, not because they need to.