[addicted]

> They pay little, but there was an instance where one of their physicians had to appeal to insurance to get a scan done (thankfully the insurance acquiesced). It doesn't make sense and all this debate around single payer healthcare is just obfuscation and distraction from investigating actual solutions.

Single payer is literally a complete solution to the problem you’re mentioning before.

So why is it obfuscation and distraction? Especially when single payer systems in Europe have proven to have better outcomes at a fraction of the cost?

I find the thought process here fascinating. Single Payer, which is actually delivering results in nearly every other developed country is an “obfuscation” and we need to find “actual solutions”. Doing what every other country that doesn’t seem to have the problem in question is not an “actual solution”. No, we must invent one out of thin air or it doesn’t count.

This seems like a Not Invented Here syndrome taken to its extreme.

[ianburrell]

Single payer is actually pretty rare in developed countries. Canada and UK are the main ones. Hybrid public/private models are more common.

Universal healthcare, where everyone has coverage, is what people usually want.

[aragilar]

Australia? New Zealand?

[dsign]

It’s an ideology issue. I’m writing from the future. Here in Swerway we have transitioned to a health system that makes people twenty-five years old forever. On the other side of the pond, the last few US administrations have gotten elected on the basis of convincing Americans that it is evil and morally corrupt to live forever, specially if you haven’t earned an ethical dispensation by becoming a billionaire first.

[burnerburnito]

Remove Swerway and this is just insane enough that I get the feeling this will really happen.

Rip Van Winkle sleeps in a coma for 80 years, wakes up revived in Swerway