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Single-payer wouldn't work very well on a state-to-state basis.
As part of an attempt to control the state's health care costs, which have been the highest in the nation, the commission sets an annual goal for health care cost growth. The 2014 goal was 3.6 percent. But actual health care costs grew by a far higher 4.8 percent. Total spending on health care in Massachusetts was $54 billion – an average of $8,010 per resident.
The biggest increase was in MassHealth, Massachusetts' Medicaid program, where spending grew by 19 percent, to a total of $15.3 billion. Much of this was due to the technical failure of the state's Health Connector website, which led to the state putting more than 300,000 people on Medicaid in 2014, even though state officials did not know whether those people were actually eligible.
Hearings to probe Massachusetts' high health care costs
Near as I can figure, Massachusetts has a single payer system.
How are things at the VA?
Underfunded. Due to ... which political party and political persuasion was it again?
In other words, the VA is cocked up and you can't prove otherwise.
In other words, you can't require yourself to be objective enough to actually LOOK to see if maybe, just maybe the VA isn't nearly as screwed-up as you seem to think. You can't let yourself think outside the conservative bubble, and so whatever the VA does right...simply means nothing to you.
What's more, you made the statement that "Every government run medical system is a cluster ****"...but your only 'proof' is the VA...and that's it.
Vets are dying, waiting for care!! That's as screwed up as it gets!!!
If these numbers are the same or based on anything like the previously known numbers, the skewed output goes far beyond the factors you point to.The reason the US seems lower than other countries is largely due to our rampant obesity epidemic and high rates of diabetes and heart disease coupled with those who smoke.
... the VA ...
Hm, let me see here. You are so much in support of tort reform, I presented two solid examples where it was tried and did NOT work (Texas of today and California where it was passed under Reagan), and you still can't pull yourself away from the conviction that tort reform is some kind of great shining solution to all that ills our health care system.
I haven't discussed my solution, have I? Personally, I like Germany's system: single-payer for those who want it, and for those who decide to opt out of it, they're free to purchase private health insurance or health care on their own.
In other words, they have a freedom of choice that we don't have. AND - unlike your claim - it DOES work in the real world...Germany proves it every single day, ensuring ALL citizens have access to quality health care, at a much lower per-citizen cost than we already pay.
But wait! Let me guess - you're going to say, "well, just move to Germany, then!" Because that's the normal retort from conservatives whenever we point out how this or that nation is able to do something better than we do, with much fewer taxpayer dollars than we do. The problem with this is that it exposes a grand assumption that it's somehow unpatriotic to learn positive lessons from other nations, much less to copy one their ideas when that particular idea is a heck of a lot better than what we've currently got.
Yeah. Funny how the libs never come out and say they are going to model a single payer system after the VA. Even they aren't that stupid.
The answer is to charge by the pound ? LOL or not ...The demands of medicine are so high, as you cut doctors pay and then work them harder you will run out of doctors.
The are lots of baby boom doctors who are going to retire soon. Why? The "medical machine" treats them like crap.
Imagine operating on a 400lb woman or a 375 lb male body builder for the same fee as a normal condition 40 year old.
The demands of medicine are so high, as you cut doctors pay and then work them harder you will run out of doctors.
The are lots of baby boom doctors who are going to retire soon. Why? The "medical machine" treats them like crap.
Imagine operating on a 400lb woman or a 375 lb male body builder for the same fee as a normal condition 40 year old.
Well, I can get cheese from Wisconsin. Why can't I get insurance?
No. The problem with healthcare costs has nothing to do with who pays for it and everything to do with the litigious state of America. We sue at the drop of a hat. So long as that's true, doctors will have to continue carrying massive malpractice insurance policies. You will never solve healthcare costs until we stop Americans from being sue-happy.
In other words, you couldn't refute what I posted, so you go back to the tried-and-true method of making broad-brush accusations based on cherry-picked observations.
Some things never change.
Vets are dying, waiting for care!! That's as screwed up as it gets!!!