September 2, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Austin FraktBelow you will find links to our new podcast. Though we do cover the idea of political feasibility and whether single payer is or is not feasible, we also discuss some other reform proposals, like those of Rep. Paul Ryan.
See also the following, related posts:
Political Feasibility
- Political feasibility is relevant
- Realists and radicals
- How repeal happens
- And a blast from the past from Aaron: Wishing won’t make it 60
Single Payer
- Single payer: Not so political infeasible
- Why not national single payer now?
- Single payer resources
- Administrative burden is not just on the insurance end
- Is single payer good for your health?
- Vermont single payor
Rep. Ryan’s Medicare and Medicaid Plans
- For cost control, Medicare and vouchers don’t add up
- Rep. Ryan’s proposal is not Rhode Island’s
- GOP Medicare privatization plan is like employer-sponsored insurance. And that’s not a good thing.
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by Devin September on January 26th, 2012 at 19:03
First, one must address whether healthcare should include public for-profit organizations. Removing healthcare from the public corporate structure does not mean socialism. For example, I checked Forbes last year (2011) and picked 8 CEO’s of healthcare industries and for their most recent 5-year compensation, these 8 received a total of over $753,000,000 – over 3/4 BILLION $$$ – just to 8 individuals. This is wrong.
Second, no one addresses the horrific inefficiency of the healthcare system. About 700 government agencies (federal and state combined), thousands of providers and payers, 10′s of thousands just to handle all the acceptance and denials and qualification verifications, horrific redundancies – a total money-sucking mess.