We Need to Design Health Care Reform That Puts Patients Before Profits

Re:We Need to Design Health Care Reform That Puts Patients B... by creaghpatr on Friday October 18, 2019 @02:11PM (#21293703)

Healthcare stocks comprise a not insignificant part of many Americans' 401k portfolios, the downstream economic effects of dismantling healthcare would extend way beyond the hospital/pharma industry.

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Re:We Need to Design Health Care Reform That Puts Patients B... by bad-joke on Friday October 18, 2019 @02:22PM (#21293815)

That 401k isn't going to be very useful if you can't afford healthcare.

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Re:We Need to Design Health Care Reform That Puts Patients B... by TheOtherHobbes on Friday October 18, 2019 @02:24PM (#21293842)

And even less useful if you're bankrupted by it.

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Re:We Need to Design Health Care Reform That Puts Patients B... by DonnyV on Friday October 18, 2019 @02:27PM (#21293866)

Less than half of the population have stocks of any kind, so this is not an issue. For the ones that do, re-balance.

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Re:We Need to Design Health Care Reform That Puts Patients B... by shantly on Friday October 18, 2019 @06:34PM (#21295611)

Hospitals & hospice are the ones who're gonna suck up all that sweet 401k money eventually anyway, in most cases. Inheritance is dead for the middle class—the elderly are, in the best case, sustained by their retirement accounts until they get sick in the last 5-10 years of their life and the healthcare industry siphons off all their money.

So yeah, go ahead and hit my retirement account for 20% in exchange for fixing healthcare—properly, like a real friggin' modern country I mean. Seems like a bargain.

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