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Since I used to work for a health insurance company, and I still work with Medicaid reimbursement rates, I know some people were interested in having me tackle this topic.
One important question in the "Health care debate" is as follows:
Are you looking at health care coverage, or at health insurance?
Universal coverage and universal insurance are not at all the same things, although theoretically universal insurance would be a way of getting to at least near-universal coverage.
This post is mostly looking at how financing a reformed but still "insurance-based" system would work, in my ideal framework. There's still plenty of stuff it doesn't fully address, both things I've thought of and things I haven't, so it's not as if I'm saying 100% yes this is what should be done. It's just the point I would start from.
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Since I used to work for a health insurance company, and I still work with Medicaid reimbursement rates, I know some people were interested in having me tackle this topic.
One important question in the "Health care debate" is as follows:
Are you looking at health care coverage, or at health insurance?
Universal coverage and universal insurance are not at all the same things, although theoretically universal insurance would be a way of getting to at least near-universal coverage.
This post is mostly looking at how financing a reformed but still "insurance-based" system would work, in my ideal framework. There's still plenty of stuff it doesn't fully address, both things I've thought of and things I haven't, so it's not as if I'm saying 100% yes this is what should be done. It's just the point I would start from.
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