Re:The U.S. could slash health-care costs with two fundament...
by rayiner on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @10:00PM
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> Alternatively, you could have a system like a lot of the rest of the world, where medical care is simply provided as needed, hospitals are public entities, and health-care has no price (since there is no market), just a cost, that is payed for from taxes.
Almost no countries have such a model. The closest one is the UK. But the U.K. still rations care aggressively to control costs. (The government uses formulas to decide whether the benefit from a treatment is worth the cost.) In Germany, where the government subsidizes multi-payer insurance, more than 2/3 of hospitals are private. Even in Sweden, which had a system like you’re describing until 1995, more than a quarter of hospitals are private.
Almost no countries have such a model. The closest one is the UK. But the U.K. still rations care aggressively to control costs. (The government uses formulas to decide whether the benefit from a treatment is worth the cost.) In Germany, where the government subsidizes multi-payer insurance, more than 2/3 of hospitals are private. Even in Sweden, which had a system like you’re describing until 1995, more than a quarter of hospitals are private.