Am I alone in thinking that for the cost of healthcare in the US/profit driven incentives, you'd really think that it would be considerably more user-friendly and accessible online than it actually is? It seems pretty bad to me.
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Replying to @briankardell
Isn’t it the _cost_ if healthcare that supports a system that is difficult to access?
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Replying to @WestbrookJ
I'm not sure what you are saying so I can't answer yes or no. I'm pro a single-payer system myself, I'm just suggesting that if this is a major part of GDP, where tons of profit is, why can't they seem to make a decent/functional website, for example?
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Replying to @briankardell
I’m thinking (who knows for sure), because we’re insurer based, they make a lot of money. But, they make more money if you don’t use health services. So, as long as we have to l through them it’ll likely stay just as hard to acquire those services.
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Replying to @WestbrookJ
I thought this too but It seems tho that you could apply that to lots of things at some level:lots of places would make more money if you are late for payments or failed to do some thing, but competition seems to help provide half decent services there at least.
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“Functional” doesn’t matter if market power is so concentrated that end-users face ologopilies (best case).
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