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Or you get a single payer and this charade goes away because the single payer's price list is fixed. This is how the rest of the world does it.
by acveilleux 11y ago
Or you get a single payer and this charade goes away because the single payer's price list is fixed. This is how the rest of the world does it.
- yummyfajitas 11y agoWestern Europe != rest of the world. The Indian system is a 1 billion payer system. The single price is also fixed and usually written on the wall, or maybe in a big book of prices. You ask for a price quote, receive it, pay that much and get it done. If the price is too high you go elsewhere. It works nearly perfectly. For any medical conditions I have that permit flight, I'm voting for it with a plane ticket.
- prostoalex 11y agoAs a counter-point, a lot of Eastern European systems are single-payer (inherited from the Soviet days of free medical care), and because the fixed price amounts to pretty much nothing, there's lack of supply of doctors and implied cash gifts for each and every transaction you undertake at the hospital.
- tzs 11y agoYou can have a fixed price list without single payer. Examples include Germany, Japan, and Switzerland.