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Re:FDA approves intranasal esketamine formulation by Pristina on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @03:39AM (#19317307)
>single payer health care system

is just a system that forces healthy people to pay for unhealthy people.

Re:FDA approves intranasal esketamine formulation by Broken_Hippo on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @04:45AM (#19317611)
This is what insurance and health care does, though. Do you think your premiums are really based on how healthy you are currently? Especially when you have insurance through your employer?

In this last case, you might pay more for certain markers (smoking, uncontrolled high blood pressure, and other wellness marks), but not if you have asthma or migraines, for example. Part of your premium is literally paying for folks that are sick. Paying for other people's pregnancies and children and stuff like that.

Re:FDA approves intranasal esketamine formulation by iamben on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @03:45AM (#19317343)
Or, you know, themselves when they get unexpectedly ill.
Re:FDA approves intranasal esketamine formulation by danmaz74 on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @04:31AM (#19317526)
Yes, just like we're forced to pay for police even if we've never been robbed...
Re:FDA approves intranasal esketamine formulation by empath75 on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @05:04AM (#19317718)
That’s literally what insurance is.
Re:FDA approves intranasal esketamine formulation by fucking_tragedy on Wednesday March 06, 2019 @07:49PM (#19324616)
If you truly care about costs, and not punishing the sick, single-payer systems are cheaper than private insurance by an average factor of 3[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...