Universal Healthcare for all

[comana]

It was only in the 70s that medical insurance companies were permitted by the government to be for-profit industries. Before that, they had to be non-profit companies. We could roll back to that, too.

True, but that still leaves the problem of each insurance company defining their own contracts, networks, payer policies, authorizations, etc. that tie member and provider hands, increase costs, and just make everything very complicated. Authorizations create an entire middleman industry on its own.

 

[RDKirk]

True, but that still leaves the problem of each insurance company defining their own contracts, networks, payer policies, authorizations, etc. that tie member and provider hands, increase costs, and just make everything very complicated. Authorizations create an entire middleman industry on its own.

I have no argument against that.

 

[RDKirk]

I have no argument against that. I'm in favor of the government as the single payer.

 

[MissRowy]

I'm privileged that I don't have to pay $$$ for medical care here in Australia. I have paid for operations in private hospitals but I get money back from that because I have private health insurance. The only public thing I really have to pay for is for MRIs. But my appendectomy only cos $2600 here in Aus...if I had the same operation in the USA it would have cost me $30,000 at least.