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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by mrcu5 on Friday February 21, 2020 @04:48PM (#22387193)
My wife is a pediatrician and sees about 80% medicaid patients. People absolutely go in more often than they need to because they don't pay a single cent. I'm talking going to the ER because their kid has a cough or is running a fever. These are usually also the most demanding patients.
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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by refurb on Friday February 21, 2020 @04:50PM (#22387214)
I found this part of the paper to be unreasonable:

Available ER visits and hospitalizations can be avert through improved access to primary care

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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by n9 on Friday February 21, 2020 @05:08PM (#22387408)
Have you ever gone to a busy urban ER? It is absolutely full to the brim 24/7 with people visiting with chronic ailments that don’t have health insurance, which is literally the most expensive possible way to treat something like asthma or chronic emphysema.
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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by refurb on Friday February 21, 2020 @07:00PM (#22388288)
Look up the Oregon Medicaid study. Basically did a lottery, half get Medicaid, half don’t.

No change in outcomes, it just cost more.

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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by codegeek on Friday February 21, 2020 @04:58PM (#22387289)
Medicaid is not the same as Medicare. Medicaid is literally Free stuff so yea, it can be abused. Medicare is not free. People pay into it through taxes. 2 different things.
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Re:Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a ... by senordevnyc on Friday February 21, 2020 @10:57PM (#22389328)
Free at the point of sale is what’s important. The fact that I know I theoretically pay for it with my taxes does nothing to curb abuse.
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