Posted on 09/18/2024 8:51:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Regardless of political position or background, most people can agree that our current American system of healthcare is in a disastrous place. Care is expensive, hard to access, and convoluted, and there aren't many streamlined, accessible resources to help people navigate this space.
There have been many proposed changes to our healthcare system, and proposed new systems that would hypothetically take the place of our existing one. But what would it really take to see a meaningful improvement?
The Tangled Knot of American Healthcare
Arguably the biggest issue here is that American healthcare is a tangled knot of different systems, resources, and institutions jockeying for power. The end result is that the average patient or consumer has little control over the healthcare they receive or what they pay for it.
Doctors, nurses, hospitals, and other individuals and institutions are bound to follow strict regulations. Available treatments and solutions are similarly bound by laws. The insurance industry is complex and multifaceted, intended to make health care more affordable but perhaps falling short of that goal in many ways.
As a result, there aren't many straightforward, inexpensive solutions for health and medical issues. For example, imagine a person starts showing symptoms associated with mesothelioma. Mesothelioma is a rare and deadly form of cancer that even advanced oncologists sometimes don't understand. If you want to get the best possible treatment for mesothelioma, you'll need to find your way into a dedicated specialist’s office, and you'll also need to work around potential insurance and financial issues. This turns caring for your health into a major uphill battle.
The Futility of Universal Healthcare
Many people in the present have recommended universal health care as the be-all, end-all solution to healthcare woes, but there are several problems with this:
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I can imagine, cant I?
How many old guys will suffer a heart attack when she walks in their room to “check” their vitals?
We could start with the 3000% to 10,000% markups over cost.
A cheap small plastic washtub and water cup worth $5 billed out at $200 is a good place to start.
It worked pretty well back in the day.
Those overcharges are in part an attempt to make up for all the free care provided in the emergency room
Just like the cost of apts, car insurance, home insurance etc is because of illegals.
I remember back a few years somewhere in the southeast there were a few doctors who had their own medical network and the prices were very low.
Independent doctors like me are becoming an endangered species
https://www.statnews.com/2024/02/15/independent-doctors-physician-owned-practices-congress-reimbursement/
More than 100,000 doctors have left private practice and become employees of hospitals and other corporate entities since 2019. Today, nearly three in four physicians are employees of larger health care entities or other corporations — a record high.
This article is a joke.
The biggest problem is that we want everyone to have healthcare which is the Christian thing to do, but the people who get it cant afford it....so we end up with $25 paper cup charges. And giving “free” healthcare only encourages more of it. Also, the things that can be done are by nature expensive; bloodletting and leaches were much cheaper. The you add the ambulance chasers adding more overhead...then stadium naming rights....it goes on and on....
Yes the illegals are included in the bunch of working poor that could never pay the costs. With them gone, I dont think that would solve the problem though.
“Those overcharges are in part an attempt to make up for all the free care provided in the emergency room”
And that is the false justification and brainwashing story they use to perpetuate the scam.
The truth is, if they didn’t do that the average person could afford to pay out of pocket for their own healthcare. Just like it used to be in the 60s and 70s. We have already been there and done it before. The insurance industry messed it up by trying to negotiate and short pay on the bills. So it forced the medical industry to overcharge to make up for what the insurance companies were shorting them. It started long before all the free medical care was handed out.
So tell me then how do hospitals recoup for all the ER expenses they occur for providing mandate care that is never paid for?
What we have is medicine by the numbers. AI could do as well.
Palantir’s AI managed to save the VA $92M in redundant spending, and $11B in future spending, and reduced procurement times from months to days. Is doing similar for the NHS. There’s a lot of money to be saved out there. Now if they would just tell us what to do with the massive free-rider class...
“Easier roads to credentials. If you want to become a doctor, it’s going to take you 11 to 12 years on average. When you’re done, you’ll have a mountain of debt and a stressful job.”
This is why I’m becoming an EMT, bridging to nursing, then going for a PA certification. I basically learn on the job and have WAY less debt.
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