Re:Health care is turning into a consumer product
by terr-dav on Monday January 10, 2022 @01:35PM
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What you're describing is the lack of a normal market, and even that only applies if you have insurance. For the millions of people without insurance, they do indeed shop around.
It is very much a capitalist system, since the ownership (& control) of the system is not in the hands of the workers - in insurance companies, hospitals, pharma, etc - but in the hands of wealthy shareholders.
To be fair, I suspect your definition of capitalism is very different from mine...
Re:Health care is turning into a consumer product
by bushbaba on Monday January 10, 2022 @04:12PM
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Those without insurance are quoted prices different than what insurance companies pay.
Even getting a price quote is often impossible.
Government should enforce the same pricing to all parties or allow everyone to get the same prices Medicare negotiated.
If instead we use health insurance like home insurance for unforseen major issues, and had price transparency. Then prices would go down as people would shop around.