The issue isn't just profits, it's also inefficiencies and inflated costs, like duplicate forms and large amounts spent rejecting claims and then negotiating them.
Our life spans are generally about 3 years shorter than in most European countries and IIRC Canada. Are our lifestyles worse? Obesity is much worse here, but then again, I think we have about 20% smokers here and it's about 35% in Europe. Let's say our lifestyles are overall somewhat less healthy here, and that accounts for the lifespan difference. That leaves roughly equal outcomes for healthcare if averaged out over the entire systems. Yet they spend about half on it.
Medicare, which covers mainly the elderly, accounts for roughly half of all medical spending in the US. Rather than simply looking at spending per capita, perhaps we should compare spending per capita in age brackets. Americans seem to cling to life desparately. The phrase "if it saves just one life it will be worth it" comes to mind. We may have to re-evaluate that policy.
Perhaps, but in spite of that, we still have shorter life-spans. They don't seem to be letting their elderly die in other first world countries, but they're still paying a lot less for their health care.
You're touching on an important topic though. The state of medical science is such that we can treat a lot of chronic ailments and keep people alive for quite a while, but we still can't cure most of them. This is why health care in general is so much more expensive than it used to be.
the VAT/transaction tax rate should be as low as it can be to not bring in excess revenuesYour plan will almost certainly enormously raise your tax bill. Are you ok with this?
Taxes and revenue with it has to go up. The people who vote for expensive government programs need to actually feel the cost of those programs in their paychecks rather than putting it on the federal credit card.
oh fuck governmentworker777 is back. I was hoping you had a stroke or something.
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Oh, you're on this 'nobody can ever know anything ever' kick again. I'm terribly sorry that you don't understand policy analysis, but I'm not going to be the one to teach it to you.
Our life spans are generally about 3 years shorter than in most European countries and IIRC Canada. Are our lifestyles worse? Obesity is much worse here, but then again, I think we have about 20% smokers here and it's about 35% in Europe. Let's say our lifestyles are overall somewhat less healthy here, and that accounts for the lifespan difference. That leaves roughly equal outcomes for healthcare if averaged out over the entire systems. Yet they spend about half on it.
How would that be done? I don't know how easy it would be to punish those who vote for social welfare while not hurting those who are libertarians so that's why I'm askingTaxes and revenue with it has to go up. The people who vote for expensive government programs need to actually feel the cost of those programs in their paychecks rather than putting it on the federal credit card.
Funny but when I said that the US should have people who are qualified examine health care and determine the best ways to fix the system before legislating you had a fit and said we had all the answers, yet when I asked how you could guarantee that political sniping wouldn't chew any legislation first approach into pulp you had no answer. Whatever France has is due to an evolutionary process which has come about over time and is permitted by their government which does not conform our Constitution. For that matter what is "UHC" in your mind?
Do you even know what these to Acts do?
Sarbanes-Oxley Act is to prevent fraudently income reporting by corporations (in other words prevent companies from lying to investors). How is this a bad thing?
Dodd-Frank bill is designed to prevent another too big to fail scenerio and provide basic comsumer protections, like banks and credit card companies from jacking interest rates without warning, amoung other accounting regulation.
Neither of these are business killing issues. Its just making sure that businesses are up front and honest with consumers and investors.