Re:U.S. health care's widespread overbilling problem
by Retric on Monday July 10, 2017 @04:56PM
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You generally can't really directly associate specific cases of disease with specific lifestyle choices.
EX: Some non smokers get lung cancer, so a percentage of smokers would have gotten cancer either way.
Re:U.S. health care's widespread overbilling problem
by grasshopperpurp on Monday July 10, 2017 @03:49PM
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What about people who live in food deserts?
Re:U.S. health care's widespread overbilling problem
by cmurf on Monday July 10, 2017 @04:29PM
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What about them? They'll live longer automatically, that's one incentive.
Every state should probably require every food related corporation to be a benefit corporation, with clear phrasing that an equal motive to profit for that business is incentivizing customers to eat healthy. If the incentive is just profit, you get crazy things like government subsidized sugar farmers and boner pill pharma.
Recently I went to a doctor for a minor problem, but did not get pre-authorization. I knew exactly what it was going to cost for the visit, and knew it would not be covered by insurance. What I did not know is, due to lack of pre-authorization, it also would not be counted against my deductible! Dicks.
I think major medical (true insurance for unpredictable things like congenital disease or accidents) should be something everyone gets, and it's paid for with taxes. Done. And then for poor lifestyle choices like smoking and having a crappy diet, you should either die (seriously) or you should pay the system out of your own pocket to take care of you (start a gofundme, see if anyone cares about your problems).
There is no possible way to fix healthcare in the U.S. with the multilayered middle man, for-profit approach we have, where everyone touches it wants their cut.