Healthcare is a luxury item. Ask any third world country if healthcare is a right LOL. It’s not something we are forced to buy sooner or later, it is services and products which improve/save your life. If you do not have the means to pay for services/products, then what entitles you to it? Just being lucky to be born…

They are blameless. When you have to open an entire administration wing dedicated to medical billing, billing is messed up, thank government again for that. You can simplify billing by just enforcing Robinson–Patman Act of 1936 (or Anti-Price Discrimination Act, Pub. L. No. 74-692, 49 Stat. 1526 (codified at 15 U.S.C.…

The private insurance companies are doing a terrible job because government created the conditions in which they operate. A shift to government single payer would undoubtedly lead to complete socialized medicine which all you have to do is look at the VA(which I have had the pleasure in suffering through) as a guide…

The reason why we have overpriced plans is because insurance companies lobbied it with democrats hand in hand.

Well normal workers, leave. Take them and start a company where you can set the wages or whatever to where you think is fair. Stop being a bitch.

Yes barely profitable because there are not that many physicians coming out of school in radiology so who is gonna undercut that 600k radiologist? No competition. Why? Because the AMA, government and schools artificially make physicians a hard career to make it into(Yes you want a properly trained one, but the…

Hospitals are not making ridiculous profits. They are struggling to meet the demands while at the same time getting nothing in payouts from insurers. Obamacare has fucked many of them and many are partnering getting bought out by large ones that have the legal team to navigate the BS.

If there is an emergency,…

National healthcare works for now in several other nations because we subsidize them through our national defense(Hey NATO!)

You know why they charge what they do? Because government only pays 3x(fuck you hospital, thats all you get because we are government and the law, deal with it), some people don’t pay at all(poor and illegals) which the hospital has to put on the 5-10x normal plans to stay afloat(everybody else gets stuck with the…

Hisss. socialism, where those who don’t work demand more and more, don’t care about costs, meanwhile nothing ever changes but they ever growing bureaucracy. It’s so much fun demanding other people pay for your needs.

Socialized medicine wouldn’t fix anything. Really. It really doesn’t. I don’t understand why people think it would. You know what really determines health outcomes besides just regular care inundated from the 1960s on? Culture.

When the poorest of your nation consumes the worst things possible for health, do things…

No, it priced the pool out which is why you see middle income families on the path to not being able to pay for insurance.

If we socialized medicine we would run into more problems than you think. Ask yourself this, how much does the defense industry make off the government? Do you honestly think that the same tactics…

Yes, through government force and the idiot masses, take from one to give to another, comrade. The top 20% are people who make $110,000. That isn’t much.

There is a reason why they have one insurance company to choose from...ding ding ding! OBAMACARE.

Obamacare would not work based on insurance principle alone. I don’t think you understand how insurance works. None of these government plans address the real issue at hand for healthcare.

You want costs to go down, you do this by doing three things: increase supply, decrease demand, or make it more efficient. Playing…

Medicaid is just government subsidized insurance. The costs are the same it’s just that their recipients pay some of it while everybody else pays the rest through taxes or adding to national debt. It would cost the government(and everybody who pays taxes) more money no matter what. Not to mention how would companies…

Single payer does one thing, shifts the power to negotiate from consumer to government. The problem today is that government is too involved with healthcare and does not allow true competition or market forces to work. The consumer has no power to negotiate due to government regulations/laws.

Awful idea. That would bankrupt the country faster than you can say Social Security and Medicare. Now you want to expand Medicaid so everyone gets covered on top of everything? LOL. How about we get rid of all of it, cut defense to protect ourselves and our interests, and focus on infrastructure to let people build…

UK don’t come up with new drugs, therapies or devices, have waiting lists for speciality procedures months long, and generally let people die as they age(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2161869/Top-doctors-chilling-claim-The-NHS-kills-130-000-elderly-patients-year.html). Meanwhile in America, we have more…

The baby dies. That is nature and the harsh reality. Make medical care cheaper by getting government out of healthcare to the point where a family could afford it, then maybe the baby won’t die. How did we ever survive as a society before our hospital system we have now?(we will know soon enough when everything is…

Here are some hard truths.
-Not all people will be born healthy, some of these babies will die.

Oh look, Gawker alive in Lifehacker. Imagine that.