ERs are hiring fewer doctors to save money: Shots

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.

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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.

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