Healthcare

Posted by coaldigger 6 years, 6 months ago to Ask the Gulch
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What would happen is the President and the leaders of Congress, should they wish to participate, met with CEO's of all major healthcare companies and challenged them to present a plan for free market health insurance? If the deal was for government to completely withdraw from the market, what would happen? Would they want Medicare and the revenue stream provided into this fund and presently collected by government? Would they be able to spread their risks so that pre-existing conditions would have little or no impact? Would the elimination of regulations provide better healthcare? Life insurance exists despite the pre-existing condition that we are all going to die. If the free market could increase their profits by funding research to cure deadly disease, would they have the long range view to do so?

I don't know enough about insurance, healthcare, etc. to provide any answers but I suspect every living person cares about his/her own life and given the freedom to do so would seek the best possible situation to sustain it. With the profit incentive and self preservation unleashed, I suspect there is an answer and that only idiots that want power over everyone, stand between it and a solution.


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  • Posted by 6 years, 6 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Looters only lobby when their government counterparts have regulatory control over who wins and who loses.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 6 years, 6 months ago
    Lots of questions there. The current medical system lives on medicare payment...called CMS funding. They'd want that revenue stream. The more the government is involved, the more expensive it gets. Then, as is the case here in California, they pass laws that mandate medical treatments and put their fingers into people's lives where 1- they shouldn't tread, and 2- they are going off of incorrect premises.

    As somebody who works in the industry - my advice is to not get sick or hurt. From pain killers to procedure wait lists...things are getting ugly and mismanaged. There is little incentive to do things right, and there are a lot of practitioners who don't have a clue what they are doing, yet they flourish in this current paradigm of government involvement...
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  • Posted by BCRinFremont 6 years, 6 months ago
    In the imperfect world in which we live, there is no perfect or free solution to anything. Madness ensues in such pursuits and the resources required to get closer to the goal of perfection approach infinity. F
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  • Posted by BCRinFremont 6 years, 6 months ago
    Anything that is “free” is worth every cent that is paid for that thing.
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  • Posted by $ rockymountainpirate 6 years, 6 months ago
    As long as big Pharma and insurance companies are able to lobby, and our elected employees are able to take their handouts, there will be no changes in healthcare, which by the way has little to do with health. The goal is single payer.

    There are alternatives to this plan. Chose wisely what you but into your bodies. I have so many testimonies of people who have gotten off all or most of their prescription drugs, including getting their kids off their adhd meds just by putting good food in their bodies. It's amazing what our bodies can do if we just feed them.

    My business shows you how to get off that hamster wheel of taking a drug to counteract the drug you're taking to counteract the other drug your taking and helps you get strong and healthy and as a bonus you can also get wealthy.
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  • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 6 years, 6 months ago
    In the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" there quote that where the guide says:

    “This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”

    Any attempt to solve Healthcare problem by moving the little green pieces of paper around is doomed to failure. It isn't healthcare financing that needs to be solved it is healthcare itself. As long as Healthcare is costing almost 20% of GDP there is no way it will be "affordable" no matter who is writing the checks.

    The healthcare industry is highly regulated and is pretty much locked into the "Doctor with the black bag" paradigm. Everything has to go through the physician. We need to look at other ways of caring for people, especially those with chronic diseases. Obviously if you have a Trauma you need immediate medical care, but what about type II diabetes?

    Technology is the solution. In the future, your primary care physician will be software based and essentially free.
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