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National healthcare
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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
Contra: funds spent on the young and preventative meds. Everyone has an interest in keeping the young healthy so they aren't around being feeble and a societal and economic drain for the next 70 years. And everyone has an interest in good preventative medicine for everyone else - we all benefit from more knowledge on how not to get sick in the first place, not getting infected by other sick people, having fewer resources expended to treat disease early instead of paying more to treat advanced disease, and keeping otherwise productive people productive.
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The problem is that the private payors could give a rat's ass about keeping people healthy in the long term, because they know that they're not going to end up taking care of them. Managed care only works if people stay in the system. If people move from payor to payor or from health system to health system, there's no incentiveto the healthcare providers to keep the population healthy. You're only saving your competitor money that way.
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