The only way to solve the health care crisis is the Bernie way. Medicare for All is the solution. Health Care is a human right; it is the responsibility of the Government to promote the general welfare. If it stays in the Free Market it will never be fair. We don't take out insurance policies for police coverage or fire protection - that would be more like protectionism. So as long as the profit motive is guiding idea for health care we shall not make any real fair progress. Think of all those advertising, stock, and CEO dollars going into serving Health Care?
Our current healthcare regime has little to do with "the free market". We already have socialized medicine - albeit most of it privately socialized through insurance companies. In order to have a real market, we would need to empower patients to make their own healthcare decisions by giving them transparent information about quality and prices. Our current system essentially prohibits the availability of such information. As a health economist, I am forbidden by my data use agreements from doing research on such things.
The essence of Obamacare is to empower payers (primarily private insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid) against both patients and providers. The anger we are seeing in the wake of the murder of the UHC CEO is what happens when you empower payers.
When one is confronted health care issue it is hard to research the best choice for treatment. Just look at the bogus Manage Care commercials. Insurance companies have a profit motive monies of which take away from monies for care. I have had private and Medicare. I much prefer Medicare which is the only real choice I have ever had.
The only way to solve the health care crisis is the Bernie way. Medicare for All is the solution. Health Care is a human right; it is the responsibility of the Government to promote the general welfare. If it stays in the Free Market it will never be fair. We don't take out insurance policies for police coverage or fire protection - that would be more like protectionism. So as long as the profit motive is guiding idea for health care we shall not make any real fair progress. Think of all those advertising, stock, and CEO dollars going into serving Health Care?
Our current healthcare regime has little to do with "the free market". We already have socialized medicine - albeit most of it privately socialized through insurance companies. In order to have a real market, we would need to empower patients to make their own healthcare decisions by giving them transparent information about quality and prices. Our current system essentially prohibits the availability of such information. As a health economist, I am forbidden by my data use agreements from doing research on such things.
The essence of Obamacare is to empower payers (primarily private insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid) against both patients and providers. The anger we are seeing in the wake of the murder of the UHC CEO is what happens when you empower payers.
When one is confronted health care issue it is hard to research the best choice for treatment. Just look at the bogus Manage Care commercials. Insurance companies have a profit motive monies of which take away from monies for care. I have had private and Medicare. I much prefer Medicare which is the only real choice I have ever had.