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Re:ERs are hiring fewer doctors to save money: Shots – Healt... by klyrs on Monday February 13, 2023 @12:02PM (#34776279)
I'm not sure about that. Private health care is largely beneficial in countries with strong socialized health care. I'm definitely no expert on financial regulation, but I see the practice of "flipping" businesses as the real problem. Where I live, we've recently introduced a "house flipping tax" (which doesn't go far enough, in my opinion, but that's another conversation). A similar approach could be taken to private sales of businesses: if you buy and sell a company in a relatively short period of time, the gains (from the sale, from income, etc) should be taxed at a steeply elevated rate.
Re:ERs are hiring fewer doctors to save money: Shots – Healt... by cptcobalt on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:25PM (#34777832)
Yeah, private healthcare can always be a valid addition, but access to "strong socialized healthcare" should be a relatively good minimum floor — something many countries do not have.

All humans need health maintenance, it doesn't need to be a "can I afford it" value proposition. I know friends currently living without it because they can't, even with subsidized social options... this is endemic to the problem of "socializing" a private healthcare system, where $ comes first.

Re:ERs are hiring fewer doctors to save money: Shots – Healt... by klyrs on Monday February 13, 2023 @01:57PM (#34778362)
Absolutely. The US creates particularly perverse incentives. In countries with strong socialized healthcare, private offerings must be better than the public service to be worthwhile. In the US, private healthcare needs to be better than literally nothing when a big player buys up the competition.