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by robocat
970 days ago
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The argument is that the same problems occur in education: take your education specific points & you can find the equivalent issues in healthcare (Healthcare is full of completely opaque pricing activity, ridiculous nameplate price, give enough grants and other financial aid). These are probably emergent effects of capitalism. I have a systematic fix, but I can find no margin to write it. |
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Regulated, subsidized capitalism. If insurance was only for catastrophic losses, and all premiums (government, employee and employer paid) were instead paid into things like health savings accounts, network and oligopolistic effects would start to disappear. Maybe not disappear entirely, but instead of locking people into networks the effort would go into marketing their networks as 'the best'.
You could also fiddle with pharmaceutical costs by allowing the patent monopolies to exist until a certain amount of revenue is collected from the patent, and then negate the patent. Instead of the current system with time-limited patents. This would massively disincentivize a lot of pharma-to-physician marketing (at least until the patent expires). Though there would still be some incentive to profit before the next drug comes out that makes yours irrelevant.