Good reason to reduce the influence of the for profit insurance
industry and the current economic paradigm w/r/t health care imo, as it is complicating and damaging the end goal of efficiently delivering health care services.
We should be working on a single-payer system that minimizes bureaucracy and preserves as much choice as possible, approaching it like the Dutch or Germans would. Let private companies manage it. It's where things appear headed anyway.
Maybe that's not even necessary, and the system just needs some kind of total reboot that cuts the link between employment and insurance and dramatically realigns incentives. There's a guy at Stanford named Enthoven with a plan like that.
Too many powerful special interests, too much ideological baggage and confusion to cut to the chase and meaningfully start fixing this it seems. The bill that just passed surely seems to be barking up the wrong tree.
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Posted: 05/04/2017 at 2:31PM