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Originally Posted by maskedmelon
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This is straying off topic, but why would think universal coverage would help costs when you spent half your post acknowledging the inflation caused by health insurance? ^^
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Very good points and I'm super tired and i'd like to clarify or correct my statement, or if you can figure it out and correct me by all means. There are different insurance models in the internet business in different countries.
Ours is kind of shit. But like, there are countries were internet is a bit more good for reasons, also newer infrastructure etc... but also different markets and regulations.
I think the simplest way of saying what I wanted to say is that if your going to have insurance it doesn't work well in a free market. But if the market is governed by a few rules it can work if properly implemented. And it'd be really great if I could grab in a few examples and citations to back this opinion and turn it into more of a solid debate point in favor of a insurance system/universal payer system.
I don't think universal payer may be the right answer specfically.
But the very core problem I think is that insurance companies are controlling the market, and providers are constantly struggling around them, and we have this feedback loop and insurance probably make rediculous amounts of money that gets mismanaged and magically dissapears into deep and mysteriously labyrinthine pockets...
I don't know I'm really way to tired to say anything coherent. This post is bad and shouldn't have been posted as well as my other post.
insurance is really important when it comes down to stuff like those procedures that are one offs and not economically viable, or stuff like antivenoms etc... because they can subsidize those services which are really needed, but wouldn't be affordible in a free market. but here's the thing their not... logistically expensive, just expensive because the paper and beurocracy of it is expensive, not because actual energy/cost/barter/trade expensive, but because the market makes it expensive and this is REALLY hard to explain as a lay person and i'm going to get a lot of people really mad at me for being dumb.
But it's ok
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