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Christopher B's avatar

more simply, health insurance is not health care.

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forumposter123@protonmail.com's avatar

1) Healthcare will never be reformed. It will eat us. Accept it.

2) Death Panels won't turn out to be as cold heartedly technocratic as you like. Expect instead that they approve lots of expensive stuff for powerful interests.

3) If I could reform one simple thing, I would state that if government medical expenditure in the last year of life is less then $X, then the deceased can pass on ($X - expenditure) to their designated beneficiaries. This would prompt people to have some skin in the game on end of life care, which is where the money is.

4) I think congress should pre-commit to capping government health expenditure at some % of GDP higher than now such that it won't come up in the next election cycle. I doubt they will stick to this (look at the debt ceiling or doc fix), but it does provide a point of action where "do nothing" succeeds rather then having to "do something". "Do nothing" is always easier for politicians.

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