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> Forcing them to do better accounting, and have a clear price-list would probably help, but getting rid of the employer healthcare tax subsidy (or expanding it
by jewayne 4y ago
> Forcing them to do better accounting, and have a clear price-list would probably help, but getting rid of the employer healthcare tax subsidy (or expanding it) would likely be a better solution.
Believe it or not, it would be way easier politically to implement Medicare For All than to do piecemeal reforms.
- nickff 4y ago'Medicare for all' will cause a number of foreseeable and unforeseeable problems (and benefits). It would be interesting to see one or more states do it, and observe the results.
- jewayne 4y agoI think the experience in Vermont suggests that it's unlikely to ever happen at the state level. It's far more likely to be a big bang at the national level.
- dragonwriter 4y agoHow can a state do universal single payer of its own design when there are multiple direct federal health care systems covering a substantial portion of the population, plus a huge tranch of the money states rely on for health care tied to a federal/state cooperative program with federal programmatic and eligibility constraints?