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   From: njmarsh@gmail.com   
      
   Bob  wrote:   
   >   
   > On Saturday, January 23, 2021 at 8:17:49 AM UTC-5, Kerr-Mudd,John wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Sat, 23 Jan 2021 00:45:04 GMT, Bob  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> On Wednesday, January 20, 2021 at 3:12:36 PM UTC-5, Questor wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I'm not wedded to single-payer as a solution, since there are   
   >>>> examples of industrialized countries where their multiple-payer   
   >>>> system is effective. (It still requires strong government   
   >>>> regulation.) But single-payer does seem like the obvious system to   
   >>>> simplify health insurance. The problem, and the resistance, comes   
   >>>> from the thousands of clerical workers, medical analysts, etc. who   
   >>>> work at insurance companies and the hospitals. Most of them would no   
   >>>> longer be needed.   
   >>>   
   >>> What makes you think they wouldn't? No matter who does the paying,   
   >>> there'd be a need to control costs by paying for certain cases and not   
   >>> others. That's going to require the same people to look at each   
   >>> service and each potential service and decide whether it is/was needed   
   >>> badly enough, as against whatever policy is adopted. Nobody's ever   
   >>> going to pay unquestioningly for everything, and people are going to   
   >>> push up against the limits of whatever policy is adopted. It can   
   >>> never be reduced to a simple no-judgment formula, because medicine   
   >>> always involves judgment. Nor can you let the person getting paid   
   >>> have the last say as to that judgment.   
   >>>   
   >>> Bob in Andover   
   >>>   
   >> You could look at other countries, those with an actual health service,   
   >> and learn from them.   
   >   
   > What did you think my post was informed by?   
      
   Nothing, pretty much.   
      
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