Re:You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill
by pdonis on Thursday May 30, 2024 @10:42AM
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> It's much easier to switch to different options with food than it is with healthcare.
It wouldn't be if the supply of health care were not artificially restricted by regulation.
> Medical care also often involves crisis situations
No, medical care sometimes involves crisis situations. But much more often it doesn't. A sane health care system would treat these two cases very differently. Care for crisis situations would be handled by insurance because that's what insurance is for: unexpected situations that you can't pay for out of pocket. But routine care would not. However, our system is not sane, and insists on bundling these two things together when that makes no sense.
It wouldn't be if the supply of health care were not artificially restricted by regulation.
> Medical care also often involves crisis situations
No, medical care sometimes involves crisis situations. But much more often it doesn't. A sane health care system would treat these two cases very differently. Care for crisis situations would be handled by insurance because that's what insurance is for: unexpected situations that you can't pay for out of pocket. But routine care would not. However, our system is not sane, and insists on bundling these two things together when that makes no sense.