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every encounter with the American health insurance system is a compelling case for single payer
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And should earn the patient a nomination for Nobel Peace Prize
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Yep. Including working inside the healthcare system. I’m positive that any sort of single payer or even hybrid system that we introduced in the US would also be frustrating. But I would have liked to try it. Maybe it wasn’t that realistic. But feels like our chances to give it a try slipped past.
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Working in healthcare, my concern is we have versions of a "single payer" in a segment of the system already: Medicare. If this is outsourced as we have done with Medicare Advantage, the system becomes rife with opportunities to game the system for less quality, less service and higher cost.
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"if this is outsourced" yeah it shouldn't be and that's a problem with medicare and with any future single payer we might dare to dream about
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Giving the side-eye to private equity and PBMs (pharmacy benefit manager entities" ... not saying they're the problem, but they are A problem.
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I'm deeply embroiled in this right now and am about to file medical bankruptcy for the second time. I have to wait until all of the testing is done first for my issues so I can compile all of the bills together and do everything at once.
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Oh, jeez. That's so much to carry, I'm sorry you're going through it.