Comment by Ensorceled
1 year ago
Yeah, this one is weird, the middlemen are there because we allow rent-seeking behaviour whether by insurance companies, complex corporate structures that have taken over practices, PBMs, etc. etc. Those aren't going away if we make things "more efficient" with technology, there is too much money to be made in the inefficiencies.
There’s only one way to ‘eliminate the middle man’, and that’s universal health care
So there are no middle(people) in Medicare? Or the defense industry? Single payer may just as likely future calcify the structures.
> So there are no middle(people) in Medicare? Or the defense industry?
Sooooo close to getting it.
I checked out "How does Medicare work?" [1] and, wow, that's so much more complicated than healthcare in Canada. A big part of the problem is that Medicare has to work within the current broken structure of the US health care system and pay those same middlemen.
> Single payer may just as likely future calcif[ied] the structures.
But what the US has is so much worse than the how the rest of the developed world has "calcify the structures".
[1] https://www.medicare.gov/basics/get-started-with-medicare/me...