...like our system was either well priced or achieved world beating outcomes for the price, as it was before.
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I don't see how high cost procedures ever become affordable to working men/women without either affordable insurance or universal coverage.
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I mean like most things I'm genuinely open to alternatives and have a deep suspicion of status quo and commonly accepted "wisdom" on things.
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It's just having experienced the healthcare system in many countries I've yet to see a completely on demand pay as you go system work well.
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I like that idea. Funding it would be interesting, as I guess it would be an entitlement program?
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Yeah, effectively universal single-payer catastrophe coverage. But gov't would be engaging with prices under some market discipline.
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This is pretty much the system *Barry freaking Goldwater* endorsed 50 years ago. US went badly off the rails in the 30s, fractally bad.
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We have all the predatory behavior of the worst kind of capitalism and the psychotically dysfunctional economics of central planning.
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Yes. Plus ignorance/occlusion on the consumer side as to actual costs. Everything is "free" or nearly so.
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Bigger organizations/hospitals seem to prefer the model "charge uninsured ppl hyperinflated fake price, sell debt at 15 cents on the dollar"
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