Re:Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospit...
by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @06:10PM
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> but ... this is actually the crux of the issue
I'm not sure it is. Universal healthcare is orthogonal to private health insurance. That's the lesson of Switzerland's example. I don't believe this is commonly known or accepted in American politics. Instead, any attempt at reform is pitched and vilified as an attempt to end private health insurance and healthcare.
Re:Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospit...
by PaulDavisThe1st on Tuesday September 06, 2022 @09:35PM
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It may not be commonly known in the USA. However, I'm a european immigrant of 33 years, and it's well known to me.
However, "private health insurance" is not, in and of itself, really "a thing". Only "private health insurance plus a regulatory structure for it". It is in this department that the US falls over so badly, while, for example, Switzerland gets it (mostly) right.
> You said private healthcare/insurance were to blame. Switzerland has private health insurance.
Private business in all western countries operates within the regulations and laws that cover them. The health insurance industry in Switzerland operates under a very different set of regulations and laws than the same industry in the USA. If you want to blame the OP for not being more explicit - "private healthcare/insurance and the regulatory framework are to blame" - then fine, but ... this is actually the crux of the issue.