Re:Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for ...
by centimeter on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @11:04PM
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The factors that cause America to spend a lot of money on healthcare don't go away when you switch to a single payer. If anything, they get worse.
Reform needs to happen elsewhere; for example, we need to stop using taxpayer money for extremely cost-ineffective treatment of very old people (which is where most of our money goes).
Re:Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for ...
by syops on Thursday April 01, 2021 @06:50AM
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The factors might not go away. It depends on how the reform is done. To say that they won't go away is incorrect. You don't know this. As with all reforms, they can be done well or poorly.
Re:Jump in cancer diagnoses at 65 implies patients wait for ...
by centimeter on Friday April 02, 2021 @12:01AM
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Sure, in a magical world where we suddenly switch to a perfect utopian medical system, the problems will go away. But none of the concrete proposals in this thread will make the problems go away.
With regard to government run healthcare not being socially optimal. The United States spends far more money per capita on healthcare than any universal health care system in the world. There are lots of examples which show that universal healthcare systems can be much more optimal than the American system.