Re:High-Deductible Health Policies Linked to Delayed Diagnos...
by jrockway on Saturday April 20, 2019 @06:38PM
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The government has successfully solved many large-scale infrastructure problems. Have you ever driven somewhere on a road? Was that road funded by you paying for a "road subscription" or as a benefit from your employer? Probably not. The government built it, and there are a lot of them.
I don't see why healthcare is any different. People wanted roads, so we built roads. People want healthcare, so we should build healthcare. It's the same exact thing.
Re:High-Deductible Health Policies Linked to Delayed Diagnos...
by tdeck on Saturday April 20, 2019 @05:58PM
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Yes, it's called Medicare.
Re:High-Deductible Health Policies Linked to Delayed Diagnos...
by conanbatt on Saturday April 20, 2019 @11:07PM
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Medicare is expensive per capita, and also is not self-sustaining: it needs people paying and not getting benefits to subsist. The entire social security paycheck wouldn't cover the cost of medicare per capita.
I'm very supportive of universal healthcare but even I doubt in the governments capability to pull it off, we couldn't even pull off healthcare.gov without massive waste.
Regardless I will continue to support it even if it means a generational hit to get it right.