> In the US we seem to have created sort of the opposite incentive structure -- public healthcare is only available to a limited set of people, and everyone else is more or less forced into the private healthcare system (or "private", since it seems heavily intertwined w/ govt -- e.g., standard govt websites to pick a povider, tax penalty (tho since lifted) if you aren't signed up).
There is no “we”. The rich and influential people that run the US _designed_ the system this way on purpose. To extract as much money from citizens. We didn’t reach this point by accident. Is there a presidential party or candidate that’s running on “tear the whole stupid system down and rebuild it to be simple and affordable”? Little baby steps like obama care don’t count in my opinion. No reasonable person would design a healthcare system where a hospital charges $500 for dispensing ibuprofen for example. Or a system where it’s impossible to predict how much you’ll pay as a patient. And they call it a “marketplace” lol. That’s lunacy.
If you know someone running on that as their campaign, please let me know. I’d be happy to vote for them. I’ll even donate to their campaign!
> Another annoyance is it also doesn't seem possible to buy insurance that just covers accidents, which I would personally do if I could...
That sounds like an interesting concept. Travel insurance is sort of like that, but not the same thing obviously.
This whole "extraction of money" is so stupid though, it is just reducing labor output nothing else, so goddamn stupidly greedy. Insurance should be for left field diagnoses and stay the fuck out of everything else. Right now payers are being leaned on as guardians of the purse strings which is incomprehensibly dumb.
There is no “we”. The rich and influential people that run the US _designed_ the system this way on purpose. To extract as much money from citizens. We didn’t reach this point by accident. Is there a presidential party or candidate that’s running on “tear the whole stupid system down and rebuild it to be simple and affordable”? Little baby steps like obama care don’t count in my opinion. No reasonable person would design a healthcare system where a hospital charges $500 for dispensing ibuprofen for example. Or a system where it’s impossible to predict how much you’ll pay as a patient. And they call it a “marketplace” lol. That’s lunacy.
If you know someone running on that as their campaign, please let me know. I’d be happy to vote for them. I’ll even donate to their campaign!
> Another annoyance is it also doesn't seem possible to buy insurance that just covers accidents, which I would personally do if I could...
That sounds like an interesting concept. Travel insurance is sort of like that, but not the same thing obviously.