Chris Coons thinks we should ration care based on a patient's ability to pay. I think we should decommodify healthcare.pic.twitter.com/Y6FjSlyq57
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@JessforDelaware I agree that rationing on earning power is both insane and inhumane. However, rationing is unavoidable. Modern medicine is expensive. In that context, how do you think we should ration those resources?
How much would it cost if profits were removed? Let's start there. Then let's say: what do we believe having a healthy population is worth? I think you'll find we have more than enough resources to pay for it. This idea of artificial scarcity is literally killing us.
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Artificial scarcity? Then why do single payer systems ration health care services based on QALYS??? This take doesn’t even make sense
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Jeb Bush lies about health care in other countries and Tom Clancy writes fiction
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We will save quite a bit if we rationalize our health system. But all crises in such systems are created by the rich, artificially, especially to make socialism look bad. We can easily pay to insure everyone in the country, and the effect of that would be economically good.
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Absolutely agree. But that insurance plan will not cover things like heart transplants or genetic medicine. Not if it wants to stay solvent IT DOESN'T NEED TO. Our health crisis is a lack of basic and preventative care, not a shortage of high tech. We need to acknowledge this.
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TIL: Joseph R Swedish, former CEO of Anthem Blue Cross (huge private for profit health insurance) made this much while increasing premiums. Did people suddenly get sicker and need premiums increased? Why increase premiums? Why is human health allowed to be a business?pic.twitter.com/D6JcyWyHNO
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All of this is irrelevant to my point. Some health procedures are expensive for very good reason. Those will have to be rationed. To believe otherwise is magical thinking. Progressives need to be thinking hard about how this actually works in practice.
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So you refuse to answer. That's too bad. Some scarcity is artificial (e.g. cost of insulin). Some is not (e.g. cost of personalized genetic therapy). This is an issue that must be grappled with. I'm sorry that you are not interested in doing so.
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For example, you could have responded that priority will be placed on paying for preventative, prenatal, and pediatric care. Those are by far the best bang-for-the-buck health investments. MUCH more important to fund those than to provide every 75 yo with a heart transplant.
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