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Re:Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger proble... by panzer_wyrm on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @07:41AM (#14299138)
To bring us costs to western europe levels you need to have 1. Slash labor compensation 2. Slash medicine prices. 3. Reduce amenities in hospitals 4. Reduce medical student debt. 5. Reduce equipment cost 6. Reduce somewhat the freedom of patients to choose doctors and doctors to choose patients. 7. Outright kill hospital prices. 8. Reduce malpractice insurance. Reduce malpractice compensation. 9. Forbid direct medicine marketing to consumers and doctors.

Any of those is hard on its own. Combined - it is impossible.

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Re:Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger proble... by akvadrako on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @09:13AM (#14299676)
It's only impossible because it's so had to get everybody to agree on a plan. To reduce healthcare costs, the USA really just needs a leader who's good at making deals.
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Re:Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger proble... by panzer_wyrm on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @09:32AM (#14299806)
That is the best subtle trolling I have seen this month. Well played sir.
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Re:Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger proble... by rileymat2 on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @07:56AM (#14299224)
Why suggest reducing malpractice insurance and reducing malpractice compensation instead of reducing malpractice?
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Re:Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger proble... by panzer_wyrm on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @08:07AM (#14299278)
First because reducing malpractice is a goal that does not depend on the way a system is funded. We should reduce medical errors full stop.

The two you mentioned give direct costs increase and indirect in the form of defensive medicine. UnNecessary treatments because the doctor is scared of potential lawsuits could event hurt patients since there is no such thing as procedure without risk or complications.

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Re:Warren Buffett says health care costs are a bigger proble... by jessaustin on Tuesday May 09, 2017 @09:35AM (#14299830)
Considering the plague of lawyers with which USA is burdened, there is no reason to believe that reducing malpractice would reduce malpractice compensation or malpractice insurance.
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