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Re:Amazon Health by make3 on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @09:58PM (#16279378)
maybe if health insurance becomes one large monopoly, they can have enough leverage to force the health care providers to lower their prices to a reasonable level similar to that of countries where the government has that role (of being a monopoly payer, and forcing the costs to be lower by negotiation leverage)
Re:Amazon Health by URSpider94 on Thursday February 01, 2018 @01:52AM (#16280057)
That is what’s called “single payer” healthcare, and indeed that’s the idea.
Re:Amazon Health by refurb on Thursday February 01, 2018 @09:30AM (#16282052)
I chuckle at the "negotiation leverage". It's not a negotiation it's the gov't setting payments by fiat. Healthcare workers in the US clearly have concerns with that.