Re:Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy
by Mindless2112 on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:12PM
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I'm assuming by "universal healthcare" you mean single-payer. I think the biggest problem is that changing who pays for it doesn't actually fix the problem. You've still got the most expensive, least effective healthcare system in the world -- now it's just financed with your tax dollars.
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Re:Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy
by afarrell on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:39PM
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Free-at-point-of-care does reduce costs because it reduces complexity. Once hospitals don't have to haggle with insurance companies, they can fire a bunch of administrators and thereby reduce costs.
Re:Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy
by axaxs on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @03:16PM
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Not necessarily. Right now, hospitals/doctors/etc can tell insurance companies to pound sand if they aren't willing to pay much. If there is only one insurance company, they are beholden to it and have to negotiate from a position of little-to-no power.