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How Do We Fix American Healthcare?
Posted on 8/17/19 at 5:28 pm
Posted on 8/17/19 at 5:28 pm
Say you're president or an advisor to Trump, how would you go around fixing our current health care system?
I'm assuming most would try to open it to more of a free market stye of health care which of course means keeping the government out almost entirely.
I do see some wanting it to stay the way it is however out current system costs $3.5 trillion a year which is even less then Bernie's proposed system which would cost $3 trillion a year.
I'm assuming most would try to open it to more of a free market stye of health care which of course means keeping the government out almost entirely.
I do see some wanting it to stay the way it is however out current system costs $3.5 trillion a year which is even less then Bernie's proposed system which would cost $3 trillion a year.
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Posted on 8/17/19 at 5:35 pm to dawgfan24348
-Dismantle the ACA.
-Remove the mandatory nature of emergency rooms having to take anyone who comes in (limit it to serious or life-threatening issues).
-Put a firewall up between insurance providers and medical professionals/establishment.
Done.
-Remove the mandatory nature of emergency rooms having to take anyone who comes in (limit it to serious or life-threatening issues).
-Put a firewall up between insurance providers and medical professionals/establishment.
Done.
This post was edited on 8/17/19 at 5:37 pm
Posted on 8/17/19 at 5:37 pm to dawgfan24348
Is it broken?
Posted on 8/17/19 at 5:51 pm to member12
When you have people dying because they can't afford insulin which is $700 there's a problem. It's much cheaper to purchase it in other countries such as Canada
Posted on 8/17/19 at 5:51 pm to dawgfan24348
Price posted publicly
Posted on 8/17/19 at 5:53 pm to dawgfan24348
remove government from healthcare...
it will fix itself
it will fix itself
Posted on 8/17/19 at 5:53 pm to deeprig9
This is a big one the fact that I can get an exact price on lasik while I won't know the cost of my knee surgery is pretty shady
This post was edited on 8/17/19 at 5:54 pm
Posted on 8/17/19 at 5:55 pm to dawgfan24348
I have a lot to say on this but don’t really want to go in on it right now.
I’ll just drop one thought:
Health insurance shouldn’t be used for routine family doctor’s visits when your kid has strep throat. Just handle that $150 charge like you do when your car needs a new battery and move on.
I’ll just drop one thought:
Health insurance shouldn’t be used for routine family doctor’s visits when your kid has strep throat. Just handle that $150 charge like you do when your car needs a new battery and move on.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 6:02 pm to dawgfan24348
We can't.
It is broken beyond repair without a free market, competitive system.
No reason to pay thousands of dollars for sutures are minor infections. It has gotten out of hand and cannot be fixed.
It is broken beyond repair without a free market, competitive system.
No reason to pay thousands of dollars for sutures are minor infections. It has gotten out of hand and cannot be fixed.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 6:05 pm to dawgfan24348
Let the government do it. Look how well they have done with the education system.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 6:14 pm to dawgfan24348
Make network discounts illegal. What you pay shouldn’t depend on what plan you’re with.
Transition to individual policies vs through employment. Make premiums a tax credit...not deduction....with a max cap to reflect full coverage.
Create a high risk pool in each state that subsidizes costs for chronic illnesses - so insurance can’t deny diabetics or pre existing conditions. Pool offsets costs above a normal patient in that demographic.
Allow customization of plans and deductibles based on needs and financial status. Also, insurers collect deductibles...not providers.
Expand Medicare for the indigent with community clinics mandatory access points.
Make it mandatory at the state level that anyone not on Medicare have some sort of commercial insurance. You can’t just buy it when you’re diagnosed with something.
Transition to individual policies vs through employment. Make premiums a tax credit...not deduction....with a max cap to reflect full coverage.
Create a high risk pool in each state that subsidizes costs for chronic illnesses - so insurance can’t deny diabetics or pre existing conditions. Pool offsets costs above a normal patient in that demographic.
Allow customization of plans and deductibles based on needs and financial status. Also, insurers collect deductibles...not providers.
Expand Medicare for the indigent with community clinics mandatory access points.
Make it mandatory at the state level that anyone not on Medicare have some sort of commercial insurance. You can’t just buy it when you’re diagnosed with something.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 6:17 pm to Scoop
quote:
Health insurance shouldn’t be used for routine family doctor’s visits when your kid has strep throat. Just handle that $150 charge like you do when your car needs a new battery and move on.
I'm guessing you don't have a kid.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 6:19 pm to dawgfan24348
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When you have people dying because they can't afford insulin which is $700 there's a problem.
Seriously?
Posted on 8/17/19 at 6:20 pm to dawgfan24348
It would take undoing about a hundred years of damage. The best way for the healthcare system to work is to remember that healthcare is an industry, insurance companies and doctors are both working to provide a living for themselves and their families first. With any public service, what works best for everyone is to let the free market dictate costs and allow people to have a choice of whether or not they want health insurance, what kind of insurance they want, and which doctor they want to see. The only reason that premiums are so high right now is because the government has steadily built up a monopoly over the health insurance industry. And even if you can’t afford insurance, we are the most generous country on earth. Instead of waiting on the government to rescue you, your neighbors, friends, and family should be there to help you with your costs. Government programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and the ACA will all collapse on their own, but we should be slowly phasing out of those programs rather than force people my age to pay the taxes and buy into Medicare and Social Security when both will be bankrupt by the time we’re eligible.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 6:20 pm to dawgfan24348
You allow insurance companies to compete nation wide and across state lines
That will be HUGE
Make it mandatory (and enforce it) for providers to bill insurance companies rather than individuals
That will be HUGE
Make it mandatory (and enforce it) for providers to bill insurance companies rather than individuals
Posted on 8/17/19 at 6:25 pm to DyeHardDylan
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buy into Medicare and Social Security when both will be bankrupt by the time we’re eligible.
Not I. I'll be drawing mine/your money in 6 short years. For another 30 years.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 6:27 pm to deeprig9
This was such a simple solution and our gov fricked it up. Sad.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 6:27 pm to dawgfan24348
Every society can only allocate so much of its resources to health care. The problem with American health care is that there are too many people besides patients, doctors, and nurses that have their hands out to take pieces of that pie.
Posted on 8/17/19 at 6:35 pm to dawgfan24348
quote:
Bernie's proposed system which would cost $3 trillion a year.
I love when the government tells me how much and what healthcare I can have
Posted on 8/17/19 at 6:38 pm to Boatshoes
You can't have market capitalism in an industry whose product is your life.
That is the problem now. The medical industry is not free market capitalism now.
The industry tells you how much you will pay for their services AFTER they perform them, and they get away with this.
They also tell you which services you will pay for.
The industry puts controls in place to prevent people from conducting do it yourself healthcare. Government rules are put in place to prevent this.
Restrictions are put on Americans as to where and how they can obtain drugs.
You could go on and on. Every advanced nation in the world has figured it out but us. We have bought into the industry propaganda, who have purchased our government representatives, as well as media figures we listen to.
Medicare for those that want it.
The first nail in the coffin for "for profit" life saving.
That is the problem now. The medical industry is not free market capitalism now.
The industry tells you how much you will pay for their services AFTER they perform them, and they get away with this.
They also tell you which services you will pay for.
The industry puts controls in place to prevent people from conducting do it yourself healthcare. Government rules are put in place to prevent this.
Restrictions are put on Americans as to where and how they can obtain drugs.
You could go on and on. Every advanced nation in the world has figured it out but us. We have bought into the industry propaganda, who have purchased our government representatives, as well as media figures we listen to.
Medicare for those that want it.
The first nail in the coffin for "for profit" life saving.
This post was edited on 8/17/19 at 6:42 pm
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