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The Health Care System's So FUBAR, We Should Do France-Style Single Payer System
2017 Jan 19, 1:12pm 4,098 views 20 comments
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It's a package deal: you want French HC system - you get the whole French system. If you like the latter - why not move there and live happily ever after?
Why should Americans have to move to another country jut to get clearly superior health care?
That's like saying if you like Japanese vehicles or authentic Chinese cuisine one should move to Japan or China.
Are you saying that Americans don't have the brainpower and wherewithal to pluck better elements of other nations' systems, that clearly work better, with more efficiency and effectiveness, and bring them here, as Japan so often does?
Your statement is one of the most close-minded and narrow viewpoints I could have possibly expected.
Expand your horizons.
Insurance companies should pay for patients going to other countries for surgeries. They will save money and so will we.
It would, but there is also trend of payors becoming hospital owners in the kaiser mold
I'm sure i could have gone to Thailand for less and got a vacation out of it.
Yep, but I'd recommend banking blood ahead of time, although Thailand doesn't have the hiv rate that India has. Both have highly skilled surgeons who are probably more proficient at age 40 as a US counterpart with 25-30 yrs experience
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2017 Jan 20, 5:59am
APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says
Impossible without COMMUNIST! tyranny that lead down the path to everyone being stuffed into ovens.
Nope. Up front pricing, negotiated drug prices, and lawsuit reform will lower medical costs greatly.
Insurance companies should pay for patients going to other countries for surgeries. They will save money and so will we.
We should be able to buy drugs from anywhere in the world
https://www.healthcitycaymanislands.com/
When these guys get up to 1000 beds, the partnership between Narayana Health and Ascension Health intend to do that, but still a few years away. Doubt US will solve problems in that time.
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I'm conservative, too, on economic issues, for the most part, but ladies & gentleman, our American system of balkanized, administratively-heavy, middlemen-skimming, parasitic loss, SICK CARE health care is so fundamentally flawed, broken and hopelessly complex (with near-monopoly entities in some cases literally pricing services, procedures, devices and pharmaceuticals at whatever arbitrary price-point they decide, because there are few, disciplining free market forces at work-
- we'd be way better off with a French style healthcare system, as a nation (we'd probably achieve high quality, more efficient care, at much lower prices, in a much more logically administered system).
#WeDoNotHaveFreeMarket