Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

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JRPGfan said:

SpokenTruth said:

You implied as such with your statement, "One can imagine the patchwork of interest-protected bloat and shameful deficiencies that would work its way into the system in short order."

It's just a payment system. Deficiency in what?  Bloat in what?  It's not a health management system.

But tell us about how efficient and unbloated our current private health insurance system is. 

I thought on avg you guys spent like 2-3 times as much on health care (money wise) as the rest of the world?
(and amounts large enough to already pay for universal health care, if you ran systems the same way the rest of the world did)

Its hard to argue that the US healthcare system isnt already bloated, and grossly profit oriented (when things cost 2-3 times as much).

*edit:
A while back, I linked to a article about a insurance company that actually offered to pay a plane ticket to people, if they were willing to fly to mexico and pickup their own drugs there. Apparently the same medicin in mexico, costs so much less than in america, that if you buy enough, insurace companies can cover your flight tickets + give you 500$, and still come off better (save money).

Like I said in another thread before, to travel to the US as a Luxembourger, you need a special travel insurance mandated by the Luxembourgish government, because for the healthcare system here, it's cheaper to send you (and you family/co-workers/friends/whatever applies) back to Luxembourg in a special medical plane and get full treatment in Luxembourg is considered cheaper than letting you get treated in the US for the exact same care.

While we're at it, I just leave this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6s4Bx7mzNkM