under the Sanders bill can you provide healthcare without being a Healthcare Provider? surely yes, right?
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the bill goes out of its way to ban providing and charging for things that medicare doesn't cover, which would be a disaster
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unless every office could be two offices on paper, one that was a Provider and one that wasn't
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what's the hazard with supplemental insurance? why do these proposals want to ban it?
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mandate that doctors wear a hat indicating in which capacity they are acting and comically switch between them as warranted
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but the reason they oppose supplemental insurance is fear of ghettoizing the public option
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if it were an option and not something that everyone is required to pay into that would maybe make sense, but
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I could see how it'd provide an incentive to shunt unusual/expensive procedures into the private market as a cost-saving measure
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that would happen anyway, except you'd be screwed even if you had money
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yea but that's not the point, we're privileging equality over efficacy in this frame
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