Considerations on Cost Disease

Re:Considerations on Cost Disease by TulliusCicero on Friday February 10, 2017 @10:49AM (#13616149)

The most obvious problem with healthcare prices is that consumers are removed two steps* from paying for it, so there's little price pressure. But it's hard to have an insurance-based system while also providing an incentive to choose a lower cost provider.

* first by insurance, and second by the employer/government paying for the bulk of that insurance

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Re:Considerations on Cost Disease by John_Innocent on Friday February 10, 2017 @11:17AM (#13616432)

That's why we shouldn't have an insurance based system. Like Ron Paul (who has been a medical doctor since the early 1960s) says, health insurance should be for catastrophic medical events, not for routine checkups and minor ailments and illnesses.

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Re:Considerations on Cost Disease by TulliusCicero on Saturday February 11, 2017 @06:07AM (#13622129)

That's how Singapore does it, which is probably fine. A shame nobody their system hasn't come up as a viable option over here.

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