Re:Hospitals mergers do not improve quality: study
by jahewson on Friday January 03, 2020 @01:09AM
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> Doesn’t a single centralized monopoly providing everyone’s healthcare seem like a bad idea?
No. It doesn’t “seem” like a bad idea. Go look at actual countries that do it - it works fine and it’s vastly cheaper than the US’s failed “system”.
That said, you don’t have to go all the way and have a single healthcare provider: a single insurer will do just fine - it works for Germany!
Also: what the heck is a non-monopoly government even supposed to be? Of course a government is a monopoly (it is all of us), you want lots of competing governments running the same things? Now that does seem like a bad idea.
No. It doesn’t “seem” like a bad idea. Go look at actual countries that do it - it works fine and it’s vastly cheaper than the US’s failed “system”.
That said, you don’t have to go all the way and have a single healthcare provider: a single insurer will do just fine - it works for Germany!
Also: what the heck is a non-monopoly government even supposed to be? Of course a government is a monopoly (it is all of us), you want lots of competing governments running the same things? Now that does seem like a bad idea.