Healthcare
Why do we pay more for healthcare than any other country on Earth?


Our healthcare system is broken, and it can all be traced back to one root issue: Profit
Healthcare should not be a for-profit industry. When your well-being is at stake, the last thing you should have to worry about is the bill.
Why do we pay more for healthcare than any other country on Earth?


Our healthcare system is broken, and it can all be traced back to one root issue: Profit
Healthcare should not be a for-profit industry. When your well-being is at stake, the last thing you should have to worry about is the bill.
First: Fix Medicare
Allow Medicare to negotiate drug prices with pharmacutical companies, instead of allowing drug companies to extra maximum profits from our tax dollars.
If private hospitals, doctors, and insurance companies can all negotiate prices on ALL drugs, why is Medicare stuck paying full retail?
This simple change alone could save tens of billions of dollars every year.
But it has been blocked by corrupt officals protecting the pharmacutical industry.
Second: Single Payer Health System
The U.S. can join every other industrialized country in the world by offering a single payer healthcare system for participating facilities.
Doctor's offices, hospitals, and specialists would all be able to opt-in to accepting single payer healthcare coverage at a fixed, publicized, re-imbursement rate.
You would still have the option to buy private insurance if you wanted to, in order to visit doctor's offices that would not participate in the single payer program.
The goal for the program would be to get all medical facilities to accept single payer insurance, by reducing logistical burdens, eliminating prior-authorizations, and minimizing paperwork and overhead that is introduced by private insurance companies playing doctor.
