Re:Americans Are Going Bankrupt from Getting Sick
by User23 on Saturday March 16, 2019 @03:34PM
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I support a variant of single payer healthcare too: you pay for your own healthcare out of pocket. All this requires is that wages be high enough and health care costs be controlled. If this sounds impossible, you should consider that it was how our system worked in the USA in living memory.
Re:Americans Are Going Bankrupt from Getting Sick
by Retra on Saturday March 16, 2019 @04:50PM
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You then deny that health insurance is a reasonable way to plan for illness?
Re:Americans Are Going Bankrupt from Getting Sick
by User23 on Saturday March 16, 2019 @05:44PM
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As currently implemented? Absolutely, it observably isn't. Why do we need middlemen preying on fear, confusion, and preventing any reasonable price discovery from occurring while driving an absolutely absurd inflation rate[1]. Please note those are monthly, not annual numbers, and some months alone hit 5%! Keeping costs down and wages up has plenty of other positive effects too.
[1] https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_health_care_inflation_rate
Right now, you need to work at a corporation to get collective bargaining for healthcare prices. This presents a huge disadvantage to people wanting to be contractors, self-employed artists, people wanting to start small businesses, people who only want to work every other year for whatever reason, etc.
Your options are limited because you need to be part of a corporate collective to get reasonable healthcare options.