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Single payer? Medicaid as an option for everybody? A public insurance option? Cost transparency or anti-trust regulation that helps further commodify health
by Centigonal 4y ago
Single payer?
Medicaid as an option for everybody?
A public insurance option?
Cost transparency or anti-trust regulation that helps further commodify health insurance and drive down costs?
Stealing ideas from the several dozen other countries that have solved the point-of-care cost problem?
- pmoriarty 4y agoI'm all for these suggestions, but they don't address any of the problems listed in the post I was replying to: "Health insurance companies love collecting insurance money and not paying out. Denying coverage, not covering procedures, not covering full treatments, not covering the full staff needed for a procedure, covering suboptimal but cheap treatments are some of the other tools in their toolset." Exactly the same problems can and do occur with single-payer, medicaid, etc...
- cortesoft 4y agoThe difference is that a single-payer system doesn’t have the people deciding what to pay making more money if they pay out less.
- nine_k 4y agoI have enough friend in the UK, Netherlands, and Germany to be grateful for the ability to pay for private insurance and get actual, timely, if expensive, access to doctors and treatment. But if the coverage runs out while between jobs, it indeed sucks.