The real problem is that health insurance is overly expensive - mainly thanks to the relationship between gov / insurance. You should fix that; thinking that nationalising health care will fix the problem is just some politician's dream.
The extra money needed for nationalised health care will have to come from somewhere - and because poor people don't have money and rich people are too good at eluding their tax obligations, the usual middle class will pay for it.
I'd rather have a fully private market without national entities messing with the prices and charities for those who can't afford it.
Of course, no politician will ever champion such a system, because it removes the gov from the equation, making them less powerful and needed by the masses that keep paying taxes.
Good. I hope this industry implodes altogether so we can all start from scratch. Business-friendly neoliberal patching policies will never work to reshape access to US healthcare to first world levels.
I salute this. Fuck it, consolidate everything so it would be easier for the government to nationalize it.
Not the simplest politically, of course, but yeah, that's one of the primary economic arguments for nationalized health care or at least nationalized health insurance.
I agree, and to solve this problem I say we nationalize and socialize healthcare to provide it to all citizens free of cost just as they do in many African and other countries. This will remove the need to have any healthcare CEOs entirely.
That's how you get healthcare lobbyists to get laws passed that screw over patients and how you end-up with medicine that rises 100x in price.
Healthcare should be nationalized. Then the government would also have other positive incentives meant to lower healthcare costs, like reducing pollution, sugar in foods, other dangerous foods on the market, and so on.
If it's implemented correctly, an american national health service would work fine. If anything, it'd do some good to the country (healthcare being shockingly high on reasons for people defaulting)
Merge all the regional monopolies into one big national hospital monopoly, with all the drug buying power that brings. Then get the Trump/Clinton Care bill passed that controls insurance prices and regulates this new 'National Health Service' as the hospital monopoly might be called.
One way to disrupt the industry might be to have everyone be in one giant insurance pool, perhaps paid for via taxes, and then give everyone access to health care via some kind of non-profit entity.
Sounds crazy, right?
It worked well for my family and I during the many years I spent in Italy, which has health care costs that are something like half of what they are in the US in terms of GDP.
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