Re:Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread
by maxerickson on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @04:05PM
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You don't need sweeping reform to bolster confidence in the healthcare system, a targeted emergency appropriation can go a long way.
Congress saying they are going to pass a bill to pay for testing and then doing it would not be difficult, and it would reduce qualms about getting tests.
Re:Covid-19 update and guidance to limit spread
by HarryHirsch on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @04:22PM
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Who is going to pay the bill for the massive run on hospitals that is going to take place in early May, if Italy is any guide? Unless the major health insurers have adequate reinsurance in place, they are going to go belly-up. Same with hospital providers, they are going to have to provide surge capacity, yet in the last 30 years they have been run by economists who have been trained in the just-in-time mindset.
There will have to be a bailout, and the aftermath should mean nationalization. Public health has been neglected for far too long.
and regardless of what one thinks about the issue, there is no way the US is passing sweeping legislation overhauling the whole system, and getting it implemented, in time to do any good at all in the current situation.