Dragonlady
Designing Woman
Eddie, your whole "a liberal will lack the IQ to . . ." makes YOU look dumber than a sack of hammers.
The US cannot currently go to a single payer system. The system is too large and too complex and too much would have to change. There are extreme shortages of doctors in some areas and that's with only 85% of your population covered. With 100% of the population insured on an equal basis, where more money can't buy you quicker service, well, your current services would soon be overwhelmed and waiting lists would exist.
The current level of health care in the US is dependent upon one level of care for the wealthy, and an entirely different level of care for those who cannot afford it. Levelling the playing field won't work and it will send the existing system, into chaos.
The ACA should have included a public option. That would have allowed a single payer system to take root, build a base and start eroding the for-profits. The public option would have been the wedge into reducing administration costs without reducing services.
What really needs to be looked at is streamlining and simplifying the billing and payment process, and drastically reducing/eliminating the pre-approval process. This would cut out a lot of time and money wasted. The problem with insurance companies is that they have entire departments devoted to reducing the amount of the claims paid. The costs of eliminating fraud and waste are generally higher than the $$$ such efforts save.
The US cannot currently go to a single payer system. The system is too large and too complex and too much would have to change. There are extreme shortages of doctors in some areas and that's with only 85% of your population covered. With 100% of the population insured on an equal basis, where more money can't buy you quicker service, well, your current services would soon be overwhelmed and waiting lists would exist.
The current level of health care in the US is dependent upon one level of care for the wealthy, and an entirely different level of care for those who cannot afford it. Levelling the playing field won't work and it will send the existing system, into chaos.
The ACA should have included a public option. That would have allowed a single payer system to take root, build a base and start eroding the for-profits. The public option would have been the wedge into reducing administration costs without reducing services.
What really needs to be looked at is streamlining and simplifying the billing and payment process, and drastically reducing/eliminating the pre-approval process. This would cut out a lot of time and money wasted. The problem with insurance companies is that they have entire departments devoted to reducing the amount of the claims paid. The costs of eliminating fraud and waste are generally higher than the $$$ such efforts save.