The problem with US healthcare is foremost the price. ACA's weakness is it didn't do anything to address that, but at least it helped cover.
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This basically turns healthcare into college financing. Costs will run unchecked.
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IMO the ACA's #1 flaw is that it's shockingly adjacent to this, anyway, and ultimately would be unsustainable.
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have you seen what Maryland are doing with all-payer rate setting?
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no, but it sounds like just the ticket!
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That's good shit. I'd love to see something that approaches that.
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Or starts from, rather.
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yep, my pet plan is basically adding APRS + Medicare opt-in through the exchanges to the ACA framework
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couldn't single payer help by having a monopoly on demand and bargaining? Or do you think that's implausible in the US?
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Doubtful. You either need services or not. Single payer has more negotiating power, but ultimately won't control costs.
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My idea for implementing Single Payer is to co-opt the skills insurance companies have at cost negotiation>
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by having doctors work with them for getting paid, while having the companies do the work of sorting out >>
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medically necessary vs cosmetic, under fairly lenient guidelines
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Otherwise you're eliminating entire fields with few transferrable skills
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