Re:A Freelancer's Forty-Three Years in the American Health-C...
by Gatsky on Saturday March 26, 2022 @10:16PM
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A fully socialised healthcare system a la Canada won’t fly in the USA (this is obvious?). There are models eg in Australia where there is pretty good socialised care, and also a private system where you either pay up or have private health insurance (with a lot of extra costs). It kinda works, and gives some choice to the user. There biggest problem with this system is that private healthcare isn’t a great business, and the hospitals and insurance companies often struggle. They also don’t provide anything near parity with public healthcare. The most complex and sophisticated care still happens in the public system, which in turn means that the best doctors still want to work in the public system as well.
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Re:A Freelancer's Forty-Three Years in the American Health-C...
by gruez on Saturday March 26, 2022 @10:56PM
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>A fully socialised healthcare system a la Canada
Is the canadian healthcare system even "fully socialized"? It's single payer, sure, but there's still private practitioners/clinics/providers.
>There biggest problem with this system is that private healthcare isn’t a great business, and the hospitals and insurance companies often struggle. They also don’t provide anything near parity with public healthcare. The most complex and sophisticated care still happens in the public system, which in turn means that the best doctors still want to work in the public system as well.
I've heard the opposite about public/private healthcare, at least in germany. Apparently there, the public insurance pays a pittance and is regulated, whereas with private insurance they can charge the market rate.