top | item 34253483 (no title) thinkmcfly | 3 years ago Goddamn your healthcare system is fucked up. discuss order hn newest strombofulous|3 years ago Is it? Isn't this exactly the outcome you'd hope for?Individual consumers pay basically nothing and companies are still incentivized to innovate and create new medicines ceejayoz|3 years ago Individual consumers aren’t paying nothing. The cost is just being hidden from them so they don’t flip over the tables.They pay via premiums - mine went up to $2,792/month this year - or if their employer pays those, via the resulting wage impact.And, as a result, we spend 2-3x what the rest of the OECD spends on healthcare - public and private spending - with roughly the same health outcomes. ceejayoz|3 years ago Agreed. Injecting a milliliter of fluid worth as much as a new car makes me twitchy.
strombofulous|3 years ago Is it? Isn't this exactly the outcome you'd hope for?Individual consumers pay basically nothing and companies are still incentivized to innovate and create new medicines ceejayoz|3 years ago Individual consumers aren’t paying nothing. The cost is just being hidden from them so they don’t flip over the tables.They pay via premiums - mine went up to $2,792/month this year - or if their employer pays those, via the resulting wage impact.And, as a result, we spend 2-3x what the rest of the OECD spends on healthcare - public and private spending - with roughly the same health outcomes.
ceejayoz|3 years ago Individual consumers aren’t paying nothing. The cost is just being hidden from them so they don’t flip over the tables.They pay via premiums - mine went up to $2,792/month this year - or if their employer pays those, via the resulting wage impact.And, as a result, we spend 2-3x what the rest of the OECD spends on healthcare - public and private spending - with roughly the same health outcomes.
ceejayoz|3 years ago Agreed. Injecting a milliliter of fluid worth as much as a new car makes me twitchy.
strombofulous|3 years ago
Individual consumers pay basically nothing and companies are still incentivized to innovate and create new medicines
ceejayoz|3 years ago
They pay via premiums - mine went up to $2,792/month this year - or if their employer pays those, via the resulting wage impact.
And, as a result, we spend 2-3x what the rest of the OECD spends on healthcare - public and private spending - with roughly the same health outcomes.
ceejayoz|3 years ago