California's ‘Surprise’ Billing Law Is Protecting Patients and Angering Doctors

Re:California's ‘Surprise’ Billing Law Is Protecting Patient... by tim333 on Saturday September 28, 2019 @10:35AM (#21100480)

>You can't provide that level of service with NHS-type funding

Places like Singapore do well at providing good service on sub NHS funding. Also people actually like the system there unlike the US and to some extent the NHS. (Brit here - NHS is ok but a bit rubbish at times). I think it's worthy of study / emulation.

I think they are something like 1/3 or 1/4 of US spend and #1 life expectancy in 2019 vs like #30 something for the US.

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Re:California's ‘Surprise’ Billing Law Is Protecting Patient... by VRay on Monday September 30, 2019 @09:16PM (#21121136)

I hate the US' health care system as much as anyone, but I don't think it's reasonable to compare Singapore to the USA that way

Singapore is the size of a US city and has a population of 6 million

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