Vermont Abandons Single Payor

[cadylou]

Thinking that a US single payor system will look anything like any of the other countries that have done so is a joke.

Look at Medicare part D. It is bought and sold and ruled by big Pharma.

Any inroads to single payor or other alterations to the US healthcare payment system will be controlled by the groups writing the biggest checks to the rule writers.

If anyone thinks they can guess what comes next they ought to buy lottery tickets for a living.

The ACA was designed to kill the individual insurance market. It is working.

Spot on - it's always all about the money. The public still thinks that somehow all of this was intended to "help" them . . . .

 

[somarco]

The public still thinks that somehow all of this was intended to "help" them . . .

That would be the stupid voters that Jonathon Gruber referenced on more than one occasion while discussing how Obamacare came to be.

 

[mrcurious]

Name some countries that don't have a problem with single payor.

OK, Cuba is one but that is an exception rather than the rule and their health care system is superior to ours.

when you say "kill the individual" insurance market.. mean make it a cluster so it is untenable? i.e. send everyone into some group plan - even the lone warriors (consultants, like myself?)

the reason for my curiosity is that i'm trying to nail down one or two things:
- how to eliminate pain from the independent agent's day / life / process
- how to deliver savings through a process or profit increase through a tool