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Re:Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online by creaghpatr on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @01:30PM (#16923886)
My half-baked opinion is that there should be a two tier system like US education.

Free primary and preventative care along with dental and vision, and have a government subsidized insurance program for hospital/long term illness coverage akin to the public university system (along with the in-state discounts).

And allow for a parallel private system to exist for those who want to pay more and get allegedly better treatment.

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Re:Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online by ceejayoz on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @01:32PM (#16923913)
Australia works on this model.
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Re:Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online by monocasa on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @02:04PM (#16924276)
So how NHS works in the UK?
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Re:Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online by pessimizer on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @02:20PM (#16924439)
No. If you have a private system, the public system gets abandoned; it's the first thing to be cut when budgets are constrained because no one making the decisions knows anyone who uses it. See US public schools.
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Re:Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online by monocasa on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @02:48PM (#16924728)
I mean, there's a separate private system in the UK.
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Re:Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online by zaroth on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @02:40PM (#16924643)
Public school funding per child increased 33% from 1995-2015.

EDIT: This does appear to be inflation adjusted. Here’s a federal source which is definitely inflation adjusted showing funding increasing in real terms by 27% from 1995-2013. [2]

[1] - http://apps.urban.org/features/education-funding-trends/

[2] - https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_235.10.a...

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Re:Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online by InitialLastName on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @02:55PM (#16924834)
If it had been tracking inflation, it would have increased 55% in that time [0]

[0] http://www.in2013dollars.com/1995-dollars-in-2015?amount=100

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Re:Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online by croon on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @03:02PM (#16924913)
That's a 14% decrease adjusted for inflation.
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Re:Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online by creaghpatr on Thursday April 26, 2018 @09:08AM (#16931498)
For all the justified complaints about the US education system, it does a fairly impressive job moving the bulk of the country's children through a complex system to navigate.

Many of the country's best schools are public, especially at the college-level.

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Re:Medicare will require hospitals to post prices online by isostatic on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @03:01PM (#16924895)
The NHS has survived for 70 years, as has BUPA, so your argument rather falls flat.
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