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" I do think absolutely free health care allows for abuse of the system" Americans are always concerned about people abusing the system but if you look at othe
by spaetzleesser 5y ago
" I do think absolutely free health care allows for abuse of the system"
Americans are always concerned about people abusing the system but if you look at other countries this is simply not the case except maybe a few isolated cases. What are you going to do if health care is cheap or free? Get surgery for the fun of it? Or have a tooth pulled every few weeks?
Right now the american system is abused big time by providers and insurers. that's what you should be concerned about. I don't see how patients would abuse a system.
- boringg 5y agoI don't disagree with you about the American system and that the insurers and private investors have messed up the incentives. What you misunderstand on my comment is that there is value in adding some level of negligible cost to each transaction. A quick internal spot check if they really need to see a specialist/doctor etc. Don't equate my comment as proof that the American system works. And just because you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
- spaetzleesser 5y agoBut why bring up a tangential point that's not an issue in the real world? The whole discussion about health care in the US is littered with distracting issues. In the end the real problem is tying health insurance to employment and the lack of transparency which allows a lot of parties to charge outrageous prices and get away with it.
- boringg 5y agoIts not tangential - its a comparison of systems in an ad hoc way. My point is that a lot of people assume that the canadian / australian / british model is the gold standard - I just think we can aim for better than those models. And our key points were about how the incentive systems are misaligned - in the US one and in the "free" care model - in different ways.