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Well, it’s the same here for the existing healthcare system in the US. Even basic reforms (obamacare) get met with insane opposition.
The difference is who the opposition is from. In the UK, it's from the voters. In the US, it's from the Healthcare Industry.
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> why not move to somewhere in the US that has doctors? Do you have a suggestion where in the US that is? The US has many doctors but essentially all of them are gated behind insurances and especially hospitals.
What are you imagining it should be? You can see your doctor pretty much freely within the US for nearly any reason. This idea you cannot see your doctor in the US, or that you receive treatment from nurses or administrators is simply not true. > insurances and especially hospitals You may be confused, because some doctors operate private practices, while others choose to work for large hospital organizations. Privat…
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Not a solution for everyone... but I have to ask, since you have the time to go to the EU for routine medical work, why not move to somewhere in the US that has doctors? Also looking at a primary care wait time is fine, but what is broken in most single player systems is specialists and "non-emergency surgery"... which is often stuff that significantly affects your quality of life. https://worldpopulationreview.com/c…
> why not move to somewhere in the US that has doctors? Do you have a suggestion where in the US that is? The US has many doctors but essentially all of them are gated behind insurances and especially hospitals.
Although actually re-reading your post, it sounds like you're really just trying to take a dig at Nurse Practitioners, most of which hold doctorates.
I guess if you're too good for a DNP, the primary care must in fact seem like an impossible thing, in which case I do wish you good luck on the 8 hour flight for "all my medical tests".
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I live with free healthcare. The last three trips to the emergency department have been over eight hour waits. My father's cancer treatment was not covered so the last year of his life cost him everything. On the other side my child's healthcare is amazing and all free. We get instant access to great services.
I think another component to the equation in wait times is also doctors per capita and GDP per capita. It's hard to compare apples to oranges but with high doctors per capita, low wait times for speciality services, long lived citizens and a far lower percentage of GDP spent on health, I wonder if there are any serious holes to poke in Italy's system when compared to the U.S. or if they simply just beat us on every m…
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.PHYS.ZS?location...
Fine, "you don't know" how much things will cost. We can figure it out for you. No thoughts, head empty, just post and sign every bill you generate as it comes.
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Insuring massive populations isn't really insurance because of large numbers (there's no risk involved.) It's just an economic rent. It's a poker game where most of the players are cooperating.
Senior / elderly care can be enormously expensive. Especially towards end of life. I could agree with you if the population was all teen to 45 year olds but that is not realistic. The same dynamics play out with pension schemes. Declining birth rates play havoc with proposals that rely on a large, young employed base who's work supports a small, retired set of pensioners. My own perspective is that healthcare is extr…
Everyone assumed there would be malicious compliance here but it's definitely eye opening just how malicious they made it. Speaks volumes for the perceived risk releasing this data, IMO. Still waiting to hear about someone using this data to negotiate down a hospital bill, seems like it's just insurance companies that can weaponize this data for better rates.
You should be able to go back to the hospital and say - based on the hospital public fee schedule , total FFS for CPT should be (very low number) . Therefore, my deductible payment is overstated, please reduce my bill dramatically.
A lawsuit would follow, which would make it very interesting. Chief argument:
The customer can clearly say its fraud - he/she looked at the public rate schedule and believed the charges would be based off the public rate schedule.
Ultimately, the disconnect between published rates and the EOB is going to come back to bite hospitals, once people shop around using the data.
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The difference is who the opposition is from. In the UK, it's from the voters. In the US, it's from the Healthcare Industry.
Companies can’t vote.
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> seems like it's just insurance companies that can weaponize this data for better rates. That’s because their negotiating power is mainly due to the size of their buying power, not special knowledge or skills. Health “insurance” is basically the lamest, most economically perverted form of collective bargaining ever.
>That’s because their negotiating power is mainly due to the size of their buying power, not special knowledge or skills. Health “insurance” is basically the lamest, most economically perverted form of collective bargaining ever. Now can you make a cogent argument for why more than one federal / national union should exist? Why does Europe allow multiple unions?