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That's correct, it won't solve the US healthcare cost problem, and I never suggested it would. What it will do, is slow the expansion of cost vs what we'll see
by adventured 4y ago
That's correct, it won't solve the US healthcare cost problem, and I never suggested it would.
What it will do, is slow the expansion of cost vs what we'll see in the private sector coverage. That slowdown will be courtesy of the massive-scale, centralized, top-down pricing push-back capability that the government has (and has very strong incentive to use as the years go by, given the fiscal situation).
The cost per capita of the two systems will split apart more and more as time goes by.
- upsidesinclude 4y agoPricing push-back seems wholly non-existent. Not sure why you would anticipate any real control mechanism in that regard. The price of health care in the US, with largely subsidized medicine, is the most (or nearly if not) outrageous on earth. The government might enact further measures which will likely have consequences not unlike the current policies