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re: Mark Cuban is working on healthcare
Posted on 11/2/19 at 9:48 pm to I B Freeman
Posted on 11/2/19 at 9:48 pm to I B Freeman
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We should take Medicaid and Medicare to a subscription based pricing model and give subscribers $x to subscribe to health services and let them shop for competing plans. They can have any money they save. Making shoppers out of all these people will drive down cost.
And nobody will take it, because we have little control over our costs. Especially when the two you name are two of the biggest pain in the arse, lowest reimbursing insurances and patients.
Deregulation. Too many regulations and bad regulations lead to higher fixed costs, higher administrative costs, and more it'll take for the provider to put up with the bullshite. You have to be in healthcare to really understand how fricked up it is. Mark Cuban can't fix it. The problems cannot be fixed under the current rules. When hospitals, chain pharmacies and other large groups are given built in advantages that costs the consumer more and pads their profits WHILE elimination competition...shite can't get fixed. Let me do my thing. Get rid of all the Stark bullshite. Only then can costs come down.
Posted on 11/3/19 at 9:12 am to SmackoverHawg
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because we have little control over our costs
How do you figure that?
Going to subscription based pricing makes it MUCH easier to shop and compare services offered.
The biggest problem in health care is that the biggest buyer of health care--the federal government--is a very poor shopper.
I say we give $X per month to medicare folks and tell them to look for subscription based health plans, compare them, buy the one that fits their needs the best and keep any savings.
Hospitals, for example, would need to offer a plan for hospital care where customers paid $X per month for use of the hospital. There would be no charges for stays and long bills for bed pans ect. A subscriber would pay $100 per month or something and when they needed to go to the hospital they would have a room. This will make shoppers out of all of us and would provide health care providers with predictable streams of income to cover their fixed cost.
It would work.
Making 150 million people shoppers will push cost down.
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