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I always wondered if this was as simple as reforming the insurance companies, or if the entire healthcare industry needed to be reworked. >> Medicare for All w
by ericmcer 18d ago
I always wondered if this was as simple as reforming the insurance companies, or if the entire healthcare industry needed to be reworked.
>> Medicare for All would prevent an estimated 68,000 unnecessary deaths a year.
Are there doctors and specialists with the necessary equipment just twiddling their thumbs, wanting to help people but the insurance companies refuse to pay so they just sit idle? Or is our healthcare limited by supply?
We might have to revisit a bunch of things like how doctors get trained/residency, what insurance should cover, public health around prevention, etc. rather than just saying "Give everyone everything".
- free_bip 18d agoRecent estimates for the number of lives saved annually is actually around 114,000[0]. The number keeps going up because healthcare in the US just keeps getting worse and worse over time. [0]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.22.26358689v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.22.26358689...
- expedition32 18d agoAll healthcare systems are limited. You have to triage. In America this is done according to wealth and status. In my country this is done according to medical status.