Re:America’s Health-Care Crisis Is a Gold Mine for Crowdfunding
by cmurf on Thursday June 15, 2017 @07:42PM
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This is both market failure and government failure. And the reason why we're arguing is the politics demands fighting for government or for the free market.
Health care industry in the U.S. includes hospitals, doctors, R&D, pharmaceuticals, insurance. All of those things are for-profit, but are also anti-competitive because they don't voluntarily, or by law, publish prices; they have conglomerated (mergers) more than banks; we confuse insurance with payment plans, a fair chunk of insurance cost is a payment plan for predictable procedures colds, annual checkups, pregnancy, aging. Aging is probably the biggest part of the payment plan because almost everyone is going to have problems related to it eventually.
My main criticism with ACA and proposed AHCA is that it effectively subsidizes a busted system. The U.S. spends 3x per capita for healthcare that does not cover everyone, compared to OECD countries who do cover everyone. U.S. pays more money to cover fewer people. It's an inherently classist system.
To really solve this we have to be willing to merge private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, FEHB, military and veterans medicine, into one system. All of the conglomeration says is this is a natural monopoly but we keep trying to force something that's inherently anti-competitive to be competitive. It'd still be unfair but metric tons better than what we have, to just hand over the whole mess to a team made up of epistomologists and economists and then adopt their recommendation.
Health care industry in the U.S. includes hospitals, doctors, R&D, pharmaceuticals, insurance. All of those things are for-profit, but are also anti-competitive because they don't voluntarily, or by law, publish prices; they have conglomerated (mergers) more than banks; we confuse insurance with payment plans, a fair chunk of insurance cost is a payment plan for predictable procedures colds, annual checkups, pregnancy, aging. Aging is probably the biggest part of the payment plan because almost everyone is going to have problems related to it eventually.
My main criticism with ACA and proposed AHCA is that it effectively subsidizes a busted system. The U.S. spends 3x per capita for healthcare that does not cover everyone, compared to OECD countries who do cover everyone. U.S. pays more money to cover fewer people. It's an inherently classist system.
To really solve this we have to be willing to merge private insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, FEHB, military and veterans medicine, into one system. All of the conglomeration says is this is a natural monopoly but we keep trying to force something that's inherently anti-competitive to be competitive. It'd still be unfair but metric tons better than what we have, to just hand over the whole mess to a team made up of epistomologists and economists and then adopt their recommendation.