Why can't we import more doctors like UK and other countries in EU. Isn't that a low hanging fruit?
YC Research: Universal Healthcare
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#12Unless you remove people out of the equation, universal healthcare will never work. There's no incentive for anyone to be efficient, more frugal, work harder, provide a better service in universal healthcare. Humans arent wired for this.
Somebody better tell all those non-humans in Western Europe about this.
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#13Unless you remove people out of the equation, universal healthcare will never work. There's no incentive for anyone to be efficient, more frugal, work harder, provide a better service in universal healthcare. Humans arent wired for this.
These are issues that have to be overcome, but the current system in the US is utterly broken and even a somewhat flawed universal healthcare like in other developed countries would be a major step forward.
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#14Unless you remove people out of the equation, universal healthcare will never work. There's no incentive for anyone to be efficient, more frugal, work harder, provide a better service in universal healthcare. Humans arent wired for this.
Universal healthcare is not the same thing as government-run and provided healthcare.
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#15Unless you remove people out of the equation, universal healthcare will never work. There's no incentive for anyone to be efficient, more frugal, work harder, provide a better service in universal healthcare. Humans arent wired for this.
This self-defeating attitude just prolongs the status quo. Plenty of countries do health care much cheaper with the same quality. Only because the US doesn't want to figure this out doesn't mean it's not possible.
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#16Healthcare isn't truly 'universal' until it is also applied to non-humans.
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#17Unless you remove people out of the equation, universal healthcare will never work. There's no incentive for anyone to be efficient, more frugal, work harder, provide a better service in universal healthcare. Humans arent wired for this.
I'm not even downvoting this because I agree/disagree, but because this argument has been brought up and discussed so many times now, it can't live alone anymore. Don't mention this without addressing the litany of counterpoints that have been raised over the past decades.
Heck, it's so overdone that even the burden of finding the counter arguments lies with you.
I'm just tired of seeing this conversation turn in circles.
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#18(Full-time co-founder of a healthcare startup here): W/r/t the US specifically: it seems there is no shortage of inefficiencies and obvious solutions to the inefficiencies in the US healthcare system. To me, the real problem seems to be a system that has almost diabolically evolved to create competing interests that deadlock all sides into a sub-optimal solution. Specifically-- patients, payers, physicians, pharma, facilities and insurers almost all have indirect but competing interests much like the Dining Philosopher's problem we're familiar with in Computer Science.
I'm not sure what the solution is short of a total swamp draining, but our startup went overseas to develop/trial our product in a country with a single payer system. Not perfect, but much more amenable to finding efficiencies.
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#19Unless you remove people out of the equation, universal healthcare will never work. There's no incentive for anyone to be efficient, more frugal, work harder, provide a better service in universal healthcare. Humans arent wired for this.
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#20Healthcare isn't truly 'universal' until it is also applied to non-humans.
Uh.... can we go over what you mean here?