The big 8 health insurers made $16.6B in the first half of 2018
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The big 8 health insurers made $16.6B in the first half of 2018
The big 8 insurers made $16.6B in the first half of 2018
Not to go all communist and shit, because I like capitalism and competition but when the average healthcare deductible is $5,000 it seems we need to either rein this in a bit or lower the damn deductibles so families aren't going broke.
Not to go all communist and shit, because I like capitalism and competition but when the average healthcare deductible is $5,000 it seems we need to either rein this in a bit or lower the damn deductibles so families aren't going broke.
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Re: The big 8 health insurers made $16.6B in the first half of 2018
Funny thing is insurance itself is actually a form of socialism. Socialism is everywhere.
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Re: The big 8 health insurers made $16.6B in the first half of 2018
If Trump gets his way by privatizing some or all of the VA, you ain't seen nuthin' yet.
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Re: The big 8 health insurers made $16.6B in the first half of 2018
Ha, talking about seeing nothing yet, if we go to a single payer system, aka "medicare for all" the federal government is going to swallow 12.7% of GDP. Good luck with that going smoothly.
The Fiscal Implausibility of Medicare for All
The Fiscal Implausibility of Medicare for All
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Re: The big 8 health insurers made $16.6B in the first half of 2018
Floyd Robertson wrote:Ha, talking about seeing nothing yet, if we go to a single payer system, aka "medicare for all" the federal government is going to swallow 12.7% of GDP. Good luck with that going smoothly.
The Fiscal Implausibility of Medicare for All
Remember "the public option" republican's forced out of the final ACA?
Competition against an entity without the absurd profit % the insurance industry currently enjoys would have been a game changer....
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Re: The big 8 health insurers made $16.6B in the first half of 2018
Single payer option is too expensive while cutting revenues and greenlighting everything DoD and Homeland Security wants is okay for the fiscally responsible GOP.
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Re: The big 8 health insurers made $16.6B in the first half of 2018
Floyd Robertson wrote:Ha, talking about seeing nothing yet, if we go to a single payer system, aka "medicare for all" the federal government is going to swallow 12.7% of GDP. Good luck with that going smoothly.
The Fiscal Implausibility of Medicare for All
You seem to have left out the part where that very same study estimates a $2 trillion savings over 10 years in total health expenditures.
Everyone knows Universal Healthcare is a fiscally viable model, it's been proven all over the world. The main question at hand to me is "Are Americans willing to pay higher taxes/cut other spending in order to provide Healthcare for everyone?"
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Re: The big 8 health insurers made $16.6B in the first half of 2018
Floyd Robertson wrote:Ha, talking about seeing nothing yet, if we go to a single payer system, aka "medicare for all" the federal government is going to swallow 12.7% of GDP. Good luck with that going smoothly.
The Fiscal Implausibility of Medicare for All
That’s a crock of shit Floyd.
Think about the reapportionment of the money already being spent on healthcare. Yeah there’d be some losers, but they’d mostly be wealthy.
Fuck em.
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Re: The big 8 health insurers made $16.6B in the first half of 2018
AnomanderRake wrote:Floyd Robertson wrote:Ha, talking about seeing nothing yet, if we go to a single payer system, aka "medicare for all" the federal government is going to swallow 12.7% of GDP. Good luck with that going smoothly.
The Fiscal Implausibility of Medicare for All
You seem to have left out the part where that very same study estimates a $2 trillion savings over 10 years in total health expenditures.
Everyone knows Universal Healthcare is a fiscally viable model, it's been proven all over the world. The main question at hand to me is "Are Americans willing to pay higher taxes/cut other spending in order to provide Healthcare for everyone?"
I didn't point out a lot of things in that article, because there's a lot to absorb. Such as, part of the cost savings comes from near 100% adoption of generic drugs. Where's the incentive for pharmaceutical innovation, then? Which brings me back to the only thing I said: implementation of M4A won't go smoothly if adopted. Where in that statement was I advocating either for or against it?
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Rocinante wrote:Floyd Robertson wrote:Ha, talking about seeing nothing yet, if we go to a single payer system, aka "medicare for all" the federal government is going to swallow 12.7% of GDP. Good luck with that going smoothly.
The Fiscal Implausibility of Medicare for All
That’s a crock of shit Floyd.
Think about the reapportionment of the money already being spent on healthcare. Yeah there’d be some losers, but they’d mostly be wealthy.
Fuck em.
I'm not so sure there won't be a lot of losers. There are hardly enough enough PCPs go around now. Faced with lower earnings assuming payment under the Medicare fee schedule and the CMS red tape under MACRA/MIPS, where is the incentive for going to school to become a doctor? We could all be waiting in line for months to see our PCP.
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Re: The big 8 health insurers made $16.6B in the first half of 2018
Floyd Robertson wrote:Rocinante wrote:
That’s a crock of shit Floyd.
Think about the reapportionment of the money already being spent on healthcare. Yeah there’d be some losers, but they’d mostly be wealthy.
Fuck em.
I'm not so sure there won't be a lot of losers. There are hardly enough enough PCPs go around now. Faced with lower earnings assuming payment under the Medicare fee schedule and the CMS red tape under MACRA/MIPS, where is the incentive for going to school to become a doctor? We could all be waiting in line for months to see our PCP.
I think that's a false line of reasoning. Drs. in the UK make what translates to about 120K a year out of medical school, and there is no shortage. Drs. Here make about 50K more. we could easily adjust that with something like education debt relief incentives. People would still be making a great salary.
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Re: The big 8 health insurers made $16.6B in the first half of 2018
Rocinante wrote:Floyd Robertson wrote:
I'm not so sure there won't be a lot of losers. There are hardly enough enough PCPs go around now. Faced with lower earnings assuming payment under the Medicare fee schedule and the CMS red tape under MACRA/MIPS, where is the incentive for going to school to become a doctor? We could all be waiting in line for months to see our PCP.
I think that's a false line of reasoning. Drs. in the UK make what translates to about 120K a year out of medical school, and there is no shortage. Drs. Here make about 50K more. we could easily adjust that with something like education debt relief incentives. People would still be making a great salary.
That's an interesting idea, and maybe it would work. There's a gazillion debt-ridden college grads in other field that would like to jump on that right?
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Floyd Robertson wrote:AnomanderRake wrote:
You seem to have left out the part where that very same study estimates a $2 trillion savings over 10 years in total health expenditures.
Everyone knows Universal Healthcare is a fiscally viable model, it's been proven all over the world. The main question at hand to me is "Are Americans willing to pay higher taxes/cut other spending in order to provide Healthcare for everyone?"
I didn't point out a lot of things in that article, because there's a lot to absorb. Such as, part of the cost savings comes from near 100% adoption of generic drugs. Where's the incentive for pharmaceutical innovation, then? Which brings me back to the only thing I said: implementation of M4A won't go smoothly if adopted. Where in that statement was I advocating either for or against it?
Pharmaceutical innovation is another canard.
"On average, the 30 large and small pharmaceutical and biotech companies IDEA Pharma examined got just 11% of their 2017 revenue from drugs developed within the past five years...Take out Gilead and Biogen from the mix and the group average drops to 8.1%. Nineteen of these 30 companies, meanwhile, got less than 7% of sales in the last calendar year from “new” products."
http://fortune.com/2018/03/06/big-pharma-innovation-rut/
Also, basic discovery research is funded primarily by government (NIH and others) and by philanthropic organizations, late-stage development is funded mainly by pharmaceutical companies or venture capitalists.
Every time anyone suggest us implementing policies that will benefit the most people in fantastic ways, some market true believer always talks about stifling innovation or that nobody will become a doctor at such a "low" salary. They real motivation behind those arguments (lies) is to keep the gravy train to the ultra rich running. Most innovation is funded by our taxes. Drs. would still become Drs. if there were a slightly lower financial incentive.
Medicare for all needs to be fully embraced as a platform. National healthcare bitches. It's time.
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in the wealthiest country in the world, there is no reason why citizens cannot have affordable access to basic healthcare.
except that it would cut into profits of the already-wealthy corporations.. and politicians just can't have that.
except that it would cut into profits of the already-wealthy corporations.. and politicians just can't have that.
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Floyd Robertson wrote:AnomanderRake wrote:Floyd Robertson wrote:Ha, talking about seeing nothing yet, if we go to a single payer system, aka "medicare for all" the federal government is going to swallow 12.7% of GDP. Good luck with that going smoothly.
The Fiscal Implausibility of Medicare for All
You seem to have left out the part where that very same study estimates a $2 trillion savings over 10 years in total health expenditures.
Everyone knows Universal Healthcare is a fiscally viable model, it's been proven all over the world. The main question at hand to me is "Are Americans willing to pay higher taxes/cut other spending in order to provide Healthcare for everyone?"
I didn't point out a lot of things in that article, because there's a lot to absorb. Such as, part of the cost savings comes from near 100% adoption of generic drugs. Where's the incentive for pharmaceutical innovation, then? Which brings me back to the only thing I said: implementation of M4A won't go smoothly if adopted. Where in that statement was I advocating either for or against it?
Your implication is that we shouldn't do it because it "won't go smoothly". Implementation of most large scale projects don't go smoothly. That's not a reason for not doing them. Wars never go smoothly, but we've got no issues starting those on a regular basis. I'm sure the idiotic Space Farce won't go smoothly. I'd love to apply your logic to that shit show.
But no, it's healthcare that's too difficult. Not space stations or lasers that shoot down missiles. Healthcare.
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hat's an interesting idea, and maybe it would work. There's a gazillion debt-ridden college grads in other field that would like to jump o
OR god forbid... stop higher ed from remodeling every building every year and actually lower costs....
MSU is unrecognizable every 10 years or so... what other industry enjoys that level of capital investment?
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Re: The big 8 health insurers made $16.6B in the first half of 2018
Well, the problem in America is that 56% of the population eats straight lard for breakfast.
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Turtleneck wrote:Well, the problem in America is that 56% of the population eats straight lard for breakfast.
Let’s not be hyperbolic now, it’s 69%.
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I just have coffee for breakfast, does that count?
Or maybe not. tNYT September 5th 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/05/upshot/medicare-budget-threat-receded.html
Wonder what happened in 2010? Obamacare?
This also affects the budgetary condition of Social Security and the SSA predictions on it as they have kept predicting longer life expectancy than has occurred for the past 20 years and have had to adjust to reality every year.
File the CBO estimates as insanity. They keep predicting higher spending that isn't happening.
Floyd Robertson wrote:Ha, talking about seeing nothing yet, if we go to a single payer system, aka "medicare for all" the federal government is going to swallow 12.7% of GDP. Good luck with that going smoothly.
The Fiscal Implausibility of Medicare for All
Or maybe not. tNYT September 5th 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/09/05/upshot/medicare-budget-threat-receded.html
Wonder what happened in 2010? Obamacare?
That budgetary good news isn’t all good news for people with Medicare. Reductions in heart attacks and strokes have had big benefits for public health, but the paucity of major medical breakthroughs has been accompanied by slowing improvements in life expectancy for seniors. The cost containment strategies in hospitals may mean patients have been denied the treatments of their choice.
This also affects the budgetary condition of Social Security and the SSA predictions on it as they have kept predicting longer life expectancy than has occurred for the past 20 years and have had to adjust to reality every year.
But Medicare’s spending is unlikely to disappear as a concern for the budget and policymakers. An aging population means the number of Americans relying on the program is growing rapidly. And analysts continue to worry that the trend is an aberration, and that some new development — an effective Alzheimer’s drug, a cultural turn away from cost cutting, the health burden of long Covid or some other chronic condition — will return Medicare spending to form. The Congressional Budget Office, which has lowered its forecasts repeatedly during the period in the face of lower spending, continues to expect growth to tick up again soon.
File the CBO estimates as insanity. They keep predicting higher spending that isn't happening.
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This is why Amazon is getting into healthcare it’s an area for growth. They are launching Amazon Pharmacy as well.
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Trapper Gus wrote:I just have coffee for break fast, does that count?
Black or do you commit crimes against humanity by adding stuff to it?
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He adds lard to it, obviously.
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