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Originally Posted by ficke
Thanks for supporting my point, when the end user has "skin in the game" cost goes down.
The more the end use pays the lower health care cost will go.
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Well, no matter how much the end user pays, a cardiac bypass is never gonna cost $1k, or even $10k. And sometimes you can’t choose not to have healthcare, like you could choose not to fix your car... you get the surgery or you die, and it costs what it costs.
Single payer means that the people in the healthcare system are essentially government employees, and depending on your flavour of system, the govt basically determines what they earn, so in theory at least some costs can be controlled that way...
My point is essentially this: while it’s appropriate for all users to have some skin in the game, there will always be cases where a user cannot just pay their own way. Some procedures are just too expensive and many (most?) people don’t have the savings available to bear the significant cost. So you’re left with two options: private insurance (you seem not to care for that) or a public healthcare system that is not perfect either, but at least doesn’t result in financial calamity for those who are unfortunate enough to require expensive healthcare.