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If you think our current system doesn't have rationing, I'm not sure what to tell you. "Long wait times" are one way to ration care -- but equally effective is
by mikeyouse 4y ago
If you think our current system doesn't have rationing, I'm not sure what to tell you. "Long wait times" are one way to ration care -- but equally effective is just denying 30 million people the ability to get any care at all due to unaffordable insurance and ruinous costs for any 'touch' with the system. Another effective way to ration care is to make routine things so expensive that people self-select out of receiving care or filling prescriptions even when they are insured.
- AlotOfReading 4y agoLiterally the entire point of copays and other forms of cost sharing is to 'ration' healthcare by reducing demand. There might be health insurance out there without cost sharing, but I've never seen it and it's certainly not the norm in the US.