Bhaskar Sunkara
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first heard Dec 2022
last heard Dec 2022
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Some of these systems have had trouble with waitlists for specialists or whatever.
That's more of like an allocation problem of if you want more specialists, you pay specialists more.
Like this is just problems that could be solved by, like through the mechanisms of planning and government-run healthcare.
So that's kind of the most...
left wing that you could get is the system in the United Kingdom.
Beyond that, you have a system like Medicare for All where you say, all right, most of the doctors, besides for public hospitals that already exist, are going to be privately employed by hospitals.
The hospitals are going to be private.
But instead of having all these different insurance carriers, we're just going to have one national insurance carrier that we're all going to pay into.
That national insurance carrier is going to negotiate the price of health care with doctors, the price of drugs with pharmaceutical companies, and so on to hopefully reduce costs.
prices and to implement a different little bit of planning into into the system, because if there's only one, you know, big national insurance company, that that company has a lot of weight and power.
But, you know, you could still visit your same doctor and there's still some it's not as radical of a of a shift in that direction.
And that's a dominant demand of Bernie Sanders and
and the left right now.
There's 30-plus million people in the U.S.
that would be insured that currently aren't insured if we moved to this system.
There's a lot of other people that are underinsured or worried about how to pay co-pays or premiums involved.
I think it would be a net benefit for the vast majority of the U.S.
population, even if it was offset with certain taxes, because we spend a lot of money out of pocket with health insurance.
And it's a demand also that's, like, widely popular.
So for me...
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