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I’ve been reading a lot of @pulte / #TwitterPhilanthropy and many of the cases are intractable and hard.
One father has a daughter with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis. Both parents work. The medications are expensive. Medical bills pile one, wages get garnished. Mortgage default.
What’s the solution to rising healthcare costs. “Pay for everything,” isn’t sustainable especially with the demand to pay for everyone who makes it past the border. Good people are struggling and there’s no discernible solution.
What @pulte’s efforts have shown, and he’s being criticized for doing #TwitterPhilanthropy publicly, is that America’s poor are largely invisible.
Even the left uses the poor as a punchline, calling people “hicks.”
Some have said that the culture wars are so brutal because we’ve given up on the hard problems. What do you tell a dad who works, his wife works, and they are going to lose their home because their daughter has an auto-immune disease?
Legitimate compassion is rare. Liberal media trafficks in outrage. Conservatives often glib, saying things like, “Well you should have saved up more money,” as if a child getting an auto-immune condition is a luxury expense.
Liberals say pay for it all, but we all know that’s not sustainable especially as they all said illegal immigrants get full coverage. Conservatives have this mindset on sick children.....”furniture.”https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/817968543211790336 …
There is an has to be a third way between childish liberalism (pay for it all, even everyone who can get past the border) and heartless conservatives (lol you should’ve saved up for that cancer medication).
People are working hard but wages are low so most people eat cheap processed food, which leads to even more sickness and auto-immune diseases, and the cycle continues, and it’s only going to get worse until we grow up and face it.
These are the kind of ideas people should be coming up with re: healthcare. “Those credit cards that roundup and send to a fund? Make a card that does this. People can opt in for a tax rebate. All their card purchases round up and go to desperate families in need.”pic.twitter.com/sLouoEsZDJ
A compromise that works in Singapore is that people pay for coverage up to a certain amount and public insurance picks up the overage/catastrophic. Imperfect but it retains some positives of social and market systems.
Deregulate. We have the internet. The market can remove the risk of bad practitioners at light speed.
Deregulation is really the only way I see prices coming down. Not sure it’s the best for quality but idk any other solutions that have a shot at working.
The problem is everyone is asking the wrong question: “How do we pay for these million dollar treatments?” The question should be: “why do these treatments cost a million dollars?” Everyone is so focused on the insurance end of things, but the whole industry is a fucking scam.
bureaucratic red tape and too many regulations causes a lot of the high prices. I also worked in an ER for a summer after high school, and it’s unreal how many people have no intention of ever paying. The nurses and doctors there told me that is a big burden on the system.
Granted that is anecdotal, but I worked at a small ER in a pretty average sized town and it was crazy how many people just never planned on paying. No way that isn’t a wide spread problem.
It is a circular problem. High costs due to regulation means people cannot afford care and then they don’t pay which leads to more price increases.
Legalize everything. I can buy meds over the counter for $5 in Mexico that I need a prescription from a doctor to buy in the US for $80 (plus the $100 for the doctor). Make American healthcare a free market.
Death Panels, it is what the socialists end up with metering out health care.
Maybe if we got to the root cause of a lot these autoimmune issues like RA — instead of throwing expensive biological drugs at people — we would be a more healthy society. It all starts with our food supply, environment and stress.
It's clearly not more rights to health care and health insurance. Being around people all day as they talk about the malpractice that entails when they see the doctor and even the simplest mistake like a swapped prescription or snap decision can cripple or kill makes one think.
Perhaps a 2 tiered system.
The solution would be something like less immigration, reforms for insurance and medicine costs, Americans being less obese, and increases in medical innovations. Praying for it and staying fit in the meantime.
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