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Re:Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy by piva00 on Thursday September 03, 2020 @02:59AM (#24361465)
Maybe all of that says that healthcare can't be a market. Due to its very nature it's not suited to fit in a market model.

I don't understand why the USA is so adamant to see that forcing market solutions to every societal demand or problem might not be good a thing. To see that this ideology has had time enough to prove itself in the real world and has been found lacking. We need something different. Accepting that there are no absolutes and that perhaps some things shouldn't be market-based doesn't sound too revolutionary for a start...

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Re:Half of Americans fear a health-related bankruptcy by metalliqaz on Thursday September 03, 2020 @10:07AM (#24364170)
There are markets that can work in healthcare, but my point is that individual patients CANNOT partake, they don't have the information, power, or even agency (ie. currently bleeding to death). There could be a market of providers to payers, but again, care must be taken to ensure the interests of the payers aligns with the interests of the patients.
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