• plyth@feddit.org
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    2 months ago

    There are wait times and a tendency to turn healthcare private by making the public option not good enough. Enough countries are on their way to copy the US.

    The big problem is that the prices are decoupled from the costs. The US healthcare system would be affordable if insurance companies couldn’t negotiate for their own rates.

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      Public systems will always be the backbone of healthcare because spinning a profit is not a KPI.

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        2 months ago

        That’s exactly why public systems will be dismantled, to make the remaining options more profitable.