The Eurpoean method only works in a single-payer system.
The Eurpoean method only works in a single-payer system. A single-payer system effectively has price controls. At the very least the EU system is not designed to maximize profit; it's designed to maximize the benefit to the people given a fixed budget. The biggest problem with the US' system is that consumers have to pay out of pocket for life and death decisions. How much would you pay to not die? Probably a lot; which is exactly why the US system is broken. You can't make rational market-based decisions when your health / quality of life is at stake. The value calculation is skewed, and everyone ends up paying more as a result.
Posted by exelius on Sep 11, 2014, 3:34 PM
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I love Americans making arguments against things like paper ballots or health care on the basis of "it's too expensive for such a large c...
People hate it when faceless bureaucrats decide that some health care expense is too expensive for the large faceless bureaucracy to cove...
> I will never understand why people think ACA was so great.
Turning oneself in doesn't absolve one of a crime.
All that we know is that the doctor carefully guided the patient out of the intervention, flashing a value that nobody had introduced bef...
> Is that what we want?
If we're gonna stick with private insurance in the US, we should detach it from employment.
>Putting the entire population on vitamin D supplements would be too expensive for the country’s national health service, he told me.
The Eurpoean method only works in a single-payer system.
The Eurpoean method only works in a single-payer system. A single-payer system effectively has price controls. At the very least the EU system is not designed to maximize profit; it's designed to maximize the benefit to the people given a fixed budget. The biggest problem with the US' system is that consumers have to pay out of pocket for life and death decisions. How much would you pay to not die? Probably a lot; which is exactly why the US system is broken. You can't make rational market-based decisions when your health / quality of life is at stake. The value calculation is skewed, and everyone ends up paying more as a result.
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