Oh joy! Went to get my COVID vax update this morning (timing makes sense for me: students pouring back with cases at peak, yuck), and…
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@inthehands You don’t have to nationalise ALL of it. Just enough to make sure no one goes untended. Private alternatives are quite alright.
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@inthehands Sounds a lot like Medicare.
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@dnelson
My understanding from people who actually understand the horrid interior of these systems is that actual Medicare as it exists has all sorts of logistical barriers that make it so it can’t just scale up to national scale without a lot of re-plumbing. But if you’re speaking vaguely, in principle, then yes. -
@tarmoamer
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Danny Boling ☮️replied to Paul Cantrell last edited by
"I am ready to see private insurance eliminated completely. I don’t see that it adds any value whatsoever."
YES!!!
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Danny Boling ☮️ last edited by
@IAmDannyBoling
[nods] I mean, people who share our view on this are I think far too careless about how easy or obvious the process would be. Pulling the knife out of the wound is dangerous, tricky business. But it is a knife, and it is a wound. -
Michael Dekkerreplied to Paul Cantrell last edited by
@inthehands curious how this story ends. Couple observations: 1) running vaccines through any insurance scheme (public or private) is a deadweight loss; vaccines should be distributed primarily through public health agencies without middlemen involved. 2) In your situation, CVS ($90b revenue) forced you ($0b revenue) to loan them $200, with full knowledge that HP ($3b revenue) would pay them in a few days. The fact that you were inserted into that payment dispute reflects poorly on CVS too.
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Paul Cantrellreplied to Michael Dekker last edited by
@dekk
Well said. A quote that lives in my head now: Patients are the free labor of the health care system.And in this case, apparently I’m the bank too.
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@dekk @inthehands By this same logic, rebates are just loans you make to a corporation that hopes they won't have to pay you back
Yep. Story checks out
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Jima :Compromise_bi_flag:replied to B Haas last edited by
@belehaa @dekk @inthehands "save big money at Menard's️"
(This joke/reference might only make sense to the Minnesotans in the thread — they make a big deal about their 11% rebates, with arbitrary time limits on redemption.)
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Jima :Compromise_bi_flag:replied to Paul Cantrell last edited by
@inthehands @belehaa @dekk That...thanks, that'll probably help matters a lot.
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