Agree. Gotta take it one step at a time. And you still gotta have co-of $20-40 for doctor visits and $100 for things like X-Rays and MRIs – so people who use it more pay more (i.e. Karens who go see a doctor after just coughing twice). Disability Medicaid can still exist to waive those fees and expedite access.
Also necessary is private health care that gives you access to experienced doctors (who cost more) and the ability to get appointments sooner. These places will use the extra money to improve and maintain their facilities, as they’ll be nonprofits.
I don’t know about your area, but in mine hospitals are closing because the have a “poor mix” of patients. Translation: Medicare doesn’t pay enough so if they don’t have enough private insurance, they go broke. You might be covered, but good luck finding any service.
Without market prices, there is no sane and rational way to allocate resources. As the government has taken over more and more of health care, it has gotten worse and more expensive. If you think it’s bad in the US, consider that in Canada, their equivalent of Medicare for All is now their number 5 leading cause of death, Medical Aid in Dying. And the only thing in healthcare that has recently followed the price/features curve seen in other technology (ie, prices of PCs, laptops, phones, ABS, SRS, etc) is vision correction surgery, which is not covered by most health care insurance.
as a fellow Canadian, shame on you for spreading right-wing propaganda. Our healthcare system used to be one of the best in the world, but austerity and Conservative (read, Republican-wannabee) governments has been choking it to death for decades now. If the provinces actually allocated the funding PROPERLY then we wouldn’t have as many problems, such as out-of-date hospitals, shortages of front line staff, brain drain of specialists, etc.
Also, MAiD would’ve allowed my mother to end her life on her terms, instead of becoming a shell as stage 4 cancer ravaged her endlessly.
Arbitrary cutoffs — i.e. 39 hours gets vastly different benefits than 40 — create all sorts of “silliness.”
Circa 1994 I was working at a small engineering company with about 130 employees. When a federal law was passed mandating that companies with more than 50 employees had to give paid family leave, the one company was split into 3. Each with fewer than 50 employees. And all still working under one roof.
#MedicareForAll. Get profit out of the healthcare model, and disconnect health insurance from employers.
Agree. Gotta take it one step at a time. And you still gotta have co-of $20-40 for doctor visits and $100 for things like X-Rays and MRIs – so people who use it more pay more (i.e. Karens who go see a doctor after just coughing twice). Disability Medicaid can still exist to waive those fees and expedite access.
Also necessary is private health care that gives you access to experienced doctors (who cost more) and the ability to get appointments sooner. These places will use the extra money to improve and maintain their facilities, as they’ll be nonprofits.
What would be so hard with keeping for-profit and doing the pay model you mention.
And the karens who call an Ambulance for a runny nose for their kid.
And say hello to medical care rationing, wait lists and denial of care until you are too far gone.
I don’t know about your area, but in mine hospitals are closing because the have a “poor mix” of patients. Translation: Medicare doesn’t pay enough so if they don’t have enough private insurance, they go broke. You might be covered, but good luck finding any service.
Without market prices, there is no sane and rational way to allocate resources. As the government has taken over more and more of health care, it has gotten worse and more expensive. If you think it’s bad in the US, consider that in Canada, their equivalent of Medicare for All is now their number 5 leading cause of death, Medical Aid in Dying. And the only thing in healthcare that has recently followed the price/features curve seen in other technology (ie, prices of PCs, laptops, phones, ABS, SRS, etc) is vision correction surgery, which is not covered by most health care insurance.
Various provincial governments are chipping away at health care. Slowly but surely they seek to eliminate it and let US style ‘healthcare’ replace it.
Fun times.
as a fellow Canadian, shame on you for spreading right-wing propaganda. Our healthcare system used to be one of the best in the world, but austerity and Conservative (read, Republican-wannabee) governments has been choking it to death for decades now. If the provinces actually allocated the funding PROPERLY then we wouldn’t have as many problems, such as out-of-date hospitals, shortages of front line staff, brain drain of specialists, etc.
Also, MAiD would’ve allowed my mother to end her life on her terms, instead of becoming a shell as stage 4 cancer ravaged her endlessly.
Exactly! Decades of intentional underfunding are ruining our fantastic medical system here.
Arbitrary cutoffs — i.e. 39 hours gets vastly different benefits than 40 — create all sorts of “silliness.”
Circa 1994 I was working at a small engineering company with about 130 employees. When a federal law was passed mandating that companies with more than 50 employees had to give paid family leave, the one company was split into 3. Each with fewer than 50 employees. And all still working under one roof.
Oh hey coop got more hours!