ThisIsIt wrote:
RZ wrote:
davec wrote:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/11/health/aetna-california-investigation/index.html
So who should make healthcare decisions? A nameless faceless insurance company bureaucraft or a nameless faceless government bureaucrat?
Either way we are fucked.
Simple question. What is the solution?
The doctor treating the patient. How did we end up where a fucking insurance company gets to dictate how a patient is treated?
When healthcare became expensive and the insurance companies had to figure out how to keep making money.
We got here because expansion of insurance, beyond what insurance usually means, allows doctors and hospitals to make more money and a whole sector of insurance companies to make more money, while not really providing any better care.
We could have health care driven more by market forces, where doctors and hospitals could only charge what the patient base could afford, and insurance could be used for unforeseen, unusually expensive emergencies, like insurance operates for homes, cars, etc.
Instead, we've allowed the insurance industry to completely entrench itself in the healthcare system, so that everything is paid for through insurance, which allows prices to skyrocket, because they're no longer constrained by any normal market forces.
Slowguy
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