On May 17, 2012, at 3:33 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
> [WS:] It seems that public insurance (such as Medicaid) is
> insufficient to prevent this kind of abuse. The root of the problem
> is private service delivery - perhaps more so than private insurance.
> According to a recent propaganda poster on the DC Metro, inscos
> profits account for less than 5% of all medical cost - hospital and
> doctor bills account for some 80 percent and drugs for 11% if memory
> serves.
A moment's analysis will tell you that this is just a falsehood (third in the trinity of lies, damn lies, statistics). Much of health care is paid for by govt. programs (Medicare, Medicaid, Veterans); "profits" excludes the parasitism embodied in executive and management salaries; a lot of the cost borne by physicians etc. is imposed by Inc. Co. paperwork./
>
> So the solution is the development of a public health care *delivery*
> system - rather than a public health insurance. And I mean public,
> not just "nonprofit" - since most US hospitals are "nonprofit" i.e.
> tax exempt.
That's what the propaganda is telling you to believe. For almost all Americans a "public health care *delivery* system" is irretrievably labeled "socialized medicine," and that meme is ideologically poisonous.
Medicare For All!!!
Shane Mage
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