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by AnthonyMouse
2738 days ago
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> Where I live you know the cost before you go to the doctor since you will only pay a symbolic sum of 30 USD even if the visit ends up with something like a life long cancer treatment. If you need medicine you will pay at most 120 USD per year regardless of the costs. Then the problem is you have no pricing mechanism for determining how much the provider should actually be paid. If you offer less than what people value the service at, you'll get shortages (or, in this context, waiting lists and less life-saving medical R&D). If you offer too much, you're overpaying (see also US government contractors). Governments in Europe apparently solve the "paying too much" problem by systematically underpaying, but that doesn't work if everybody does it. The US can't subsidize your medical R&D if they're doing the same thing. > The idea that your access to healthcare should be linked to your own or your parents financial is crazy. I've never understood why people have this idea about healthcare but not even more immediate necessities like food and housing. It's not as if the solution you're proposing is even analogous to the solutions we use for the poor there (i.e. free clinics akin to homeless shelters and soup kitchens). If the problem is that free clinics are poorly funded, why isn't the solution to fund them better rather than nationalizing the entire healthcare system? |
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Hmm but I have the same view for food and housing. Where I live if your mother doesn't have allow money to buy proper food the government will contribute (both for food and housing).