And thanks to Citizen United decision by US Supremes these "Health Care" corporations can donate money to candidates who will ensure that we never get national healthcare coverage. Super capitalism at work against the people.
Filling the loopholes in insurance is not what fixes our health care. The problem we have is a market triangle. We want a good health outcome. The insurance company wants to make maximum profit. The doctors, etc., want to survive in a decent job doing good work, but the medical company they work for wants to make maximum profit. We push the doctors, but their companies would rather make money on what is billable than make sure they provide good care. The insurance companies have to look good when we choose their insurance, but later they can throw the expensive patients under the bus. We don't and can't choose the best product, whether we are conscious or unconscious at the time, so there is no market force to provide a good product.
At no point does the system demand that doctors determine what should be done for and with patients.
A system that works would rely primarily on that. (And the systems in the rest of the developed world do, at least to some extent.)
I myself have received healthcare in several European countries -- Spain, UK, the Netherlands, Germany -- and in each case received good care while paying only a tiny fraction of what I would have had to pay here in the US.
And thanks to Citizen United decision by US Supremes these "Health Care" corporations can donate money to candidates who will ensure that we never get national healthcare coverage. Super capitalism at work against the people.
Filling the loopholes in insurance is not what fixes our health care. The problem we have is a market triangle. We want a good health outcome. The insurance company wants to make maximum profit. The doctors, etc., want to survive in a decent job doing good work, but the medical company they work for wants to make maximum profit. We push the doctors, but their companies would rather make money on what is billable than make sure they provide good care. The insurance companies have to look good when we choose their insurance, but later they can throw the expensive patients under the bus. We don't and can't choose the best product, whether we are conscious or unconscious at the time, so there is no market force to provide a good product.
At no point does the system demand that doctors determine what should be done for and with patients.
A system that works would rely primarily on that. (And the systems in the rest of the developed world do, at least to some extent.)
Thanks George. It's hard to imagine an enterprise less well suited to "the magic of the marketplace" than healthcare.
A marvelous write up, George!
Even though those that need to read and understand it, lack the concern to give a damn about their fellow humans.
Well said, George.
I myself have received healthcare in several European countries -- Spain, UK, the Netherlands, Germany -- and in each case received good care while paying only a tiny fraction of what I would have had to pay here in the US.