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Imagine if the government just paid for healthcare!
by dools 4y ago
Imagine if the government just paid for healthcare!
- JKCalhoun 4y agoOr, as I believe Japan does, dictate what a procedure costs.
- throwaway14356 4y agoi forget the details but it also use to be like that in the US though some kind of membership org and in europe by gov committee. Doctors could opt out but got no patients from the system.
- psychlops 4y agoOkay. Then what? It would be free? The codes would be cleaned up and complexity would go away? Magic!
- dools 4y agoThen it would just be yet another complicated bureaucratic government process about which the private sector would be blissfully unaware. The OP is about price transparency to make the market function more efficiently. If you have a single payer, there is no market, just healthcare administration.
- psychlops 4y agoThis is true. It would be as easy as getting a passport. Perhaps we may even use a healthcare version of a TSA precheck for an expedited line.
- dools 4y agoEvery US citizen already has a social security number which is similar to the Medicare number that all Australians have. When I go to a doctor or a hospital, I just give them my Medicare number.
- tapatio 4y agoImagine changing the constitution!
- dools 4y agoThere’s an article in the constitution that says the government can’t pay for healthcare?