#Medsky
https://www.mediaite.com/news/propublica-drops-damning-expose-on-leaked-unitedhealthcare-report-about-limiting-child-healthcare-services-to-cut-costs/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/autism#
The concept of having a for-profit company pay your health care costs is an absurd conflict of interest.
This is why all of our economic peer countries have universal health care
https://www.mediaite.com/news/propublica-drops-damning-expose-on-leaked-unitedhealthcare-report-about-limiting-child-healthcare-services-to-cut-costs/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/autism#
The concept of having a for-profit company pay your health care costs is an absurd conflict of interest.
This is why all of our economic peer countries have universal health care
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E g., the UK recently hired UHC exec Simon Stevens to clean up their broken system.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/canada-s-health-care-crisis-was-decades-in-the-making-says-cma-1.6849408
"Primary healthcare in Canada is in crisis. 1 in 6 Canadians lack a regular PCP & less than half of Canadians are able to see a PCP on the same day or next. The consequences are significant..."
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10448296/
Or, rather, it's the opposite: ACA borrowed MA's managing rules.
It's called "Risk Adjustment" and Dr. Emanuel et al selected it because it's an achievable, workable system in the US as we are
https://bsky.app/profile/sampuzzo.bsky.social/post/3ldjtkhyei22n
single
payer
provider submits icd procedure code
provider gets paid
patient never even enters the equation
Socialist services are the only way. Fire Fighters, Public Roads, Libraries, Parks, National Parks, National Holidays, Public Banks, Social Security, Internet, Healthy Drinking Water, Healthy Natural Food
Unfortunately, even Dems don’t seem to understand this
Regardless of any metric, spineless apathetic fools ensure nothing material will ever change in system.
These are some really sick people.
https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealthcare-insurance-autism-denials-applied-behavior-analysis-medicaid
How are you feeling today?
has stuck in my craw & seemed like a flagrant, in-all-lower-99%-faces conflict of interest for the last few years.
https://theflaw.org/articles/con-laws-and-the-capture-of-care/
Please do your homework before repeating propaganda.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect
(not equitist btw;)
Cuz what could go wrong with privatization in the US?
Should we ask Mr.Burns of Texas Energy Grid Fail Up profiteering fame?
Regressive AF
Problems arise when there is no private competition & govt just pays whatever it's charged. That distorts the free market & lead to proft guaging.