We need Single Payer Health Care
The administrative costs are lower, no middleman insurance co. is skimming money from care, the ability to negotiate price with pharmaceutical companies is much improved, health care becomes portable, businesses are no longer burdened in a way that their overseas counterparts are not, AND….since the single payer expects to keep paying for a particular person’s health care for life, there is more incentive for “wellness” care and improved primary care conditions.
Remember when we thought HMOs would make great strides with “wellness” care? HMOs as well as standard insurers just figured that patients are likely to move, leave system – why bother paying for extra preventative care for large numbers of people, in addition to the expected illness care?
Diabetes education is becoming a thing of the past – no agency or company wants to pay for it. There are few things more cost effective than good diabetes education and access for ongoing questions. Cardiac disease, kidney disease, peripheral vascular disease (ending in amputations), eye disease, liver disease, and so on.
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