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hoolstoptheheels

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The odds of revenue =ing cost are approximately 0.


Of course costs are out of control now so that is not necessarily an argument against a single payer insurance system of some sort. But if the core issue is HC cost control, then IMO the most important work needs to be to rearrange the incentives in the system.

Something as simple as making the patient bear some cost at least for the sniffle visit as Boca said. More challenging is how to we create incentives that encourage good outcomes. Right now, IMO, incentives encourage bad outcomes. Invasive procedures, which require enormous expertise and, increasingly, technology, are very expensive for a reason. So I'm not sure how all this gets fixed.

And the complications like this are why IMO every national system you could point to has its benefits and drawbacks.

(In response to this post by Stimp)

Posted: 03/21/2017 at 10:40AM



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