See, making people pay out of pocket for healthcare makes them reluctant to go to the doctor. So they won't pay to see the dentist for their infected tooth but run to the ER when their mouth is a festering pile of pus. Costs more to treat them, so it's economically inefficient in the long-run: pennywise and pound-foolish. And the unfortunate individual now has a mouth that doesn't chew anymore. What we should do that we don't do in healthcare is preventive medicine. So we get everyone insurance so they can see the doctor regularly, and pay for everyone's hypertension meds so they don't come in for the kidney failure from untreated hypertension. That's the official med-school argument, anyway.
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Why you want to insure everyone, according to my profs
Date: 2006-04-20 04:19 am (UTC)See, making people pay out of pocket for healthcare makes them reluctant to go to the doctor. So they won't pay to see the dentist for their infected tooth but run to the ER when their mouth is a festering pile of pus. Costs more to treat them, so it's economically inefficient in the long-run: pennywise and pound-foolish.
And the unfortunate individual now has a mouth that doesn't chew anymore.
What we should do that we don't do in healthcare is preventive medicine. So we get everyone insurance so they can see the doctor regularly, and pay for everyone's hypertension meds so they don't come in for the kidney failure from untreated hypertension.
That's the official med-school argument, anyway.
Extremely Corrupt Henchman Egregiously, Needlessly Alienating Good Users :-)