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Do you count the people who are paid to dispute every single insurance claim and fill insurer-specific forms as "health care workers"?
by himinlomax 5y ago
Do you count the people who are paid to dispute every single insurance claim and fill insurer-specific forms as "health care workers"?
- bradleyjg 5y agoWhen some rust belt county has healthcare employment as they only thing keeping it going at all, those workers are part of it. The point is that there’s no magic bullet here. There’s no mustache twirling trillionare villain that we can shut down and get the UK’s spending numbers. Cutting healthcare spending significantly, which I think we should do, would cause hardship for a huge number of people and entire regions on the country.
- GaryTang 5y ago> “Cutting healthcare spending significantly, which I think we should do, would cause hardship for a huge number of people and entire regions on the country.” And cutting healthcare spending would provide prosperity for many more.
- maerF0x0 5y agoWhich, if Andrew Yang is was correct in his thinking and sources, could be part of why there was a flood oxycontin & suicide cases, leading to Trump being highly favored by those regions... not going into the politics of trump being good or bad, but I think we can all agree human suffering and suicide are bad.
- bradleyjg 5y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window There’s real truth in the parable, but what it doesn’t get at is the transition costs in human misery of getting from an economy based on breaking and fixing windows to a better one.
- specialist 5y agoPolicy wise, I prefer hard data to parables.
- bradleyjg 5y agoThanks for sharing.
- himinlomax 5y agoDoes their employment have any positive influence on Healthcare outcome? Protection rackets do have a positive influence on mafia members' financial outcomes, nobody's questioning that.
- jjav 5y ago> The point is that there’s no magic bullet here. There’s no mustache twirling trillionare villain that we can shut down and get the UK’s spending numbers. Yes there is actually. If there was political will to do it, simply cutting off the insurance companies out of the loop will bring costs nearly in line with the rest of the developed world. The insurance companies provide no value (they're not doctors), all they do is add their overhead to profit from the work of the doctors and nurses.
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- AndyMcConachie 5y agoThere are 10s of thousands of bureaucratic office worker jobs in the US healthcare system that are basically just overhead. A friend of mine used to work as an independent advocate for sick people in NYC. Basically people who were getting screwed by some aspect of the American healthcare system would pay her to do nothing but deal with bureaucratic red tape and bullshit. Like a healthcare lawyer almost. And of course she saved people more money than she cost, so she was constantly getting new clients. She only stopped because it was soul sucking work and incredibly depressing. Now let's imagine a system that's so broken with bureaucratic BS that it makes sense to hire someone for this. All of the 'healthcare workers' that my friend would speak with on the phone for her clients were essentially overhead and only necessary because the system is geared more towards ripping people off than actually helping anyone. We don't need any of these bureaucrats. They can all be fired.