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@dwalk I agree that deductibles makes insurance either sub optimal or almost worthless for all but the most catastrophic of situations. That’s the point. Obamacare is structured on the conservative argument that without deductibles, Insured people will over consume healthcare. What’s the GOP answer? The same but more of everything wrong with Obamacare. GOP in 2017 was a tax credit not based on income, higher deductibles and far more people without even catastrophic coverage thus a heavier burden on ERs.
I exaggerate only a little when I say that a truly good healthcare plan would not be crafted by economists because it takes a lot of schooling to be able to forget that no deductible insurance has its own built in safeguard against over use, most people don’t like going to the doctor.
After the revolution, when health insurance companies are no more, ill set up a citizen’s task force to craft a good healthcare policy. Who knows bout doctor visits more than anyone? Old people. But we can’t have Republican old people shaping this. So aepps20 and RustyShackleford get me an invite to the next cookout where I’ll get the elders to form a task force, all the elders but especially your great uncle Zel, dudes got life experience like you would believe. I’ll also bring napkins and paper plates.
The closest thing to M4A is probably Taiwan, which was designed by an economist, and their healthcare system's major problem is that people over consume healthcare.@dwalk I agree that deductibles makes insurance either sub optimal or almost worthless for all but the most catastrophic of situations. That’s the point. Obamacare is structured on the conservative argument that without deductibles, Insured people will over consume healthcare. What’s the GOP answer? The same but more of everything wrong with Obamacare. GOP in 2017 was a tax credit not based on income, higher deductibles and far more people without even catastrophic coverage thus a heavier burden on ERs.
I exaggerate only a little when I say that a truly good healthcare plan would not be crafted by economists because it takes a lot of schooling to be able to forget that no deductible insurance has its own built in safeguard against over use, most people don’t like going to the doctor.
After the revolution, when health insurance companies are no more, ill set up a citizen’s task force to craft a good healthcare policy. Who knows bout doctor visits more than anyone? Old people. But we can’t have Republican old people shaping this. So aepps20 and RustyShackleford get me an invite to the next cookout where I’ll get the elders to form a task force, all the elders but especially your great uncle Zel, dudes got life experience like you would believe. I’ll also bring napkins and paper plates.
Taiwanese patients use a lot of health care, and it puts a strain on providers
What it all adds up to is a system that patients seem broadly happy with — maybe too happy, according to doctors and economists I met.
“I believe we are too kind to our patient,” says Shou-Hsia Cheng, a health economics professor at National Taiwan University (NTU) who has worked at NHIA on and off over the years, “which is not a good thing, actually.”
Taiwanese people take advantage of their cheap, accessible health care. The average number of physician visits per year (12.1) is nearly twice that of other developed economies. There was a dramatic spike in use after single-payer was passed: A 1997 JAMA research paper led by Shou-Hsia Cheng found that physician visits among the newly insured doubled in the first year of the program compared to the year before.
That has had predictable downsides: Hospitals get crowded in Taiwan. The capacity of health care providers to attend to everyone in need can be stretched pretty thin.
I visited the National Taiwan University Hospital, a red-brick building in the heart of Taipei from the Japanese colonial period, one weekday afternoon. All of the clinic lobbies were full. The registration desk, run take-a-number style, was bustling, beeps constantly pinging over the PA system as patients’ numbers were called.
On another morning, inside a north-central Taipei primary care clinic, several patients were already sitting along the walls, hooked up to machines receiving infrared therapy for chronic pain, just a few minutes after the doors opened. The one doctor on site looked a bit frazzled as he showed me around before his clinic filled up any further.
The scenes bring to mind something I heard from trauma surgeon Li-Jian Chien, a member of the Taiwanese doctors union that formed in 2012 out of the frustrations felt in the medical profession.
In Taiwan, he says, “the patient [is] in heaven” — but “the doctor is in hell.”
I remember I thought Joseph Forte was gonna be a star in the league
Reminded me I have a 40 stashed in the closet...
I knew Rashad McCants was gonna be a buss from the jumpThe Matt Doherty years at Chapel Hill were
McCants playing as a leader of a shoplifting ring >>>I knew Rashad McCants was gonna be a buss from the jump
I don't know what showed worse judgement, Forte's gun and drug charge, or McCants dating Khloe Kardashian.
McCants playing as a leader of a shoplifting ring >>>
talking about owning jerseys of Dudes who didn’t hit like you thought made me think about my trips to the thrift store.
Whenever I would hit up a thrift store and see a jersey with a dudes name i don’t recognize or remember
when I remember it was a dude who flopped hard as **** after googling the name
When it hits me the buyers remorse the original owner had