Someone doesn't understand the basics of healthcare economics. This is super simple stuff. #Threadhttps://twitter.com/AngieinWAState/status/910262367648333825 …
What this means is that healthcare costs are intrinsically imbalanced. Old, sick people pay more than young, healthy people
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Old, sick people also tend to be the least able to pay for their healthcare. So we have a few options...
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1. We let old people try and pay by themselves. They can't. Many of them suffer, some of them die, from lack of affordable healthcare
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2. We subsidize the costs of their healthcare. The usual way to do this is to charge young people a ~bit~ more, and use that money
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3. We make all healthcare free, and have a single payer paying all expenses. This is probably the cheapest option, but politically hard
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At the moment, America does mostly 1, a bit of 2, which means many people suffer from a lack of healthcarehttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/910533281782870017 …
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More importantly, these options go from most expensive to cheapest. IT IS MORE EXPENSIVE TO FORCE SICK PEOPLE TO PAY ALL COSTS
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I can't stress this enough. People are healthy until they aren't. When they aren't, they have less ability to payhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/910534227288051712 …
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This means they rack up huge debt, and are forced to pay infinitely higher healthcare costshttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/910534389657989122 …
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It turns out that the most ethical option also just happens to be the cheapest...
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So healthy people pay a bit more for their healthcare, and everyone wins. Because healthy people eventually get sick. /End Thread
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