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I don’t disagree but I’m not sure how to make the costs of healthcare work with those ratios

• mschuster91 2y ago
  Get rid of bureaucratic bullshit and you'd get > 250 billion $ a year [1]. Get rid of insurances and other middlemen and you'd get another 450 billion $ a year by going for single-payer [2]. Then, get the homeless enrolled in insurance as well - even if the government pays the premium, every single homeless person costs > 18k a year in ER visits [3], a lot of which could be prevented if these people could go to a doctor before they'd be sick enough to incur serious ER costs. And finally, get as many homeless drug addicts back into some sort of stable housing. A lot of drug usage "on the streets" is self-medication to cope with the immense stress that comes from being homeless. Yes, there will always be a certain percentage of hardcore voluntary homeless people, but that's way better manageable than the status quo. That should be way more than enough to hire enough nurses. [1] https://www.americanprogress.org/article/excess-administrative-costs-burden-u-s-health-care-system/ https://www.americanprogress.org/article/excess-administrati... [2] https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/yale-study-more-than-335000-lives-could-have-been-saved-during-pandemic-if-us-had-universal-health-care https://ysph.yale.edu/news-article/yale-study-more-than-3350... [3] https://www.newsweek.com/homeless-americans-are-costing-us-millions-each-year-street-medicine-would-help-opinion-1701167 https://www.newsweek.com/homeless-americans-are-costing-us-m...