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That sounds like something an insurance company could fill the void. Other industries have insurance charged for each job based on what the job entails. Surgery
by loonster 5y ago
That sounds like something an insurance company could fill the void. Other industries have insurance charged for each job based on what the job entails. Surgery should be no different.
- ethbr0 5y agoThe issue with US health insurance in general is that (a) it's not understood by the public as insurance, but rather as access to group rates, & (b) it's utility is proportional to the number of counterparties it covers (more doctors, more useful), which opens it up to a huge amount of abuse (doctor you've only done 3 transactions with over the past 5 years is vastly inflating fees on all). What should probably happen is something akin to the housing market: backstop consumer insurance companies with re-insurers (semi-supported by the government) who buy and back compliant policies and providers. Allowing consumer insurance companies to bound their risk and offer more reasonable rates. I think ACA has a provision in there for catastrophic cases falling off the insurers' books onto someone else's, but it's been awhile since I read through it.