The thing about the US health industry is that we’ve segmented different roles into different private institutions, which has allowed us to assign insurers all the really unpleasant roles, and then we pretend that if we got rid of the insurers (or murder them!) there’d be no problems
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Obviously not all medical practitioners are horrible monsters like this. But what do you do when all the incentives are bad from end-to-end?
Privately provided insurance: insurance companies
And linens.
Sure, insurers want to pay out as little as possible, but they also benefit from general healthcare inflation as they get to take their percentage from a larger pie.
Providers give bad news to patients and their families that have nothing to do with insurance approvals all the time.
The difference is they do it in person and not through intentional bureaucratic obstacles.
They also work with "in network " vendors to not even refer physician requests, avoiding "denials" .
Higher physician pay (due to an AMA engineered shortage of doctors) and lack of price setting for drugs and medical devices are the biggest drivers of cost.
Though, yes those costs need to be contained. On the latter point, we'd have a lot more reasonable pricing if pharma had to negotiate with one gov insurer instead of many private ones.
Their actions are dictated by one thing ironclad greed.
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There are specific regulatory features that make health insurance awful in the US, and the health insurance lobby isn’t the only group fighting for those features.
Have you ever researched other countries health care systems? Have you ever wondered like school shootings why we are the only country this happens in?
It’s the insurance corporations silly.
Have you ever wondered why NOBODY is fighting to get the US system? It’s because our system sucks.
The progressive position is one big public insurer, because that's a necessary position that should be done better.
If the US had many of the other industrial, labor, welfare and other policies of Germany than a regulated multiplayer system might work. Alas we do not. And a single payer system built similar to Canada
Medical decisions are made between a doctor/provider and a patient, there is no middle man saying no.
It is really a simple concept, you get sick you get the care you need.
Public insurance will control costs harder, that's the point of having one insurer!
You are being manipulated.
It's an incestuous industry. Maybe try and keep up.
You don’t know wtf you’re talking about, you’re going on vibes. Or you’re just lying on purpose