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it's nice to see a comprehensive explanation as to why and how our healthcare system is so messed up. I hope we can make an equally lucid plan for how to fix it
by ccvannorman 5y ago
it's nice to see a comprehensive explanation as to why and how our healthcare system is so messed up. I hope we can make an equally lucid plan for how to fix it (by moving power in the healthcare system away from investors and toward the people.)
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- dboreham 5y agoThere are very powerful forces that do not want it fixed.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoThose powerful forces are the sum of the tens of thousands of entities that have their hand in the "easy money" jar. Every group from doctors to hospitals to insurers to equipment suppliers to drug makers, etc, etc, will resist any change that has the potential to even marginally stem the flow of easy money. It's a very important lesson in how much wealth can be sapped from a country when you have "a little waste" in every portion of a major and necessary industry.
- spaetzleesser 5y agoVery true. There are probably millions of people making a living off this craziness. It will be very hard to fix this without stepping on the toes of a lot of people.
- boringg 5y agoFix it investor funded startups! Disrupt the system. Oh wait we are just replacing it with a slightly more efficient system but the same incentives are still there.
- wffurr 5y agoThe article abstract calls out regulation and a public insurance option, i.e. Medicare for All, as paths forward.