Majority of debtors to US hospitals now people with health insurance

Adam Smith, who is considered to be quite the capitalist, said that it is impossible to have a free market if the participants cannot choose not to participate.

Letting Doctors use the “free market” set medical prices is not only sinful, it is not justifiable by the most originalist economic theory.

Blaming doctors for insurance, pharmaceutical, and healthcare companies prices is a bit rich.
Letting capitalists into healthcare is the issue, not the fucking doctors. Shit the doctors are probably just as indebted to their student loans as their patients are to the hospitals, while getting reamed with fucked 24/36 hour shifts and overworked to the bone.
- People don't seem to understand that the entire medical profession is structured around exploitation — where they still expect you to work 80+ hour weeks back to back, often with shifts that last 18+ hours, and a few hours sleep in between.
  Lumping the medical scientists/professionals with medical capitalists is class warfare.
- My primary care doctor of 20+ years just quit the practice. He confided in me that it just wasn't worth it for him to keep dealing with the crazy demands and dwindling rewards. He is one of about 150k doctors who left the profession in the last couple years.
The ACA was supposed to have a public option that would put a control on the insurance prices. Ideally the public option would be so good that the insurance industry would just wither and die.
But the health insurance industry, mainly via Joe Lieberman, made sure that was never going to happen.
- Universal healthcare cheap ACA insurance
  Don’t settle for less.
- Don't forget Joe Lieberman is one of the founders of the No Labels party.
  https://www.nolabels.org/meettheteam
  If you want to know who NOT to trust, check the link
Letting Doctors use the “free market” set medical prices is not only sinful, it is not justifiable by the most originalist economic theory.
That's not even what's happening. It's vampire middlemen setting the prices, which is even worse.
Unfortunately Capitalism by its very nature abhors a free market. Free markets mean more competition, which means less profits. Which is counter to the ideology of capitalism, that being higher profits mean success.
- Capitalism is fundamentally unstable and will devolve into monopoly and autocracy if not regulated to prevent it.

You do everything right and still lose it all - our capitalistic system is working exactly the way it is intended.

I hate the US healthcare system so much. So much stress for so many people for so little reason.

There's a reason why literally no developed country in the world is imitating that system. It's broken and it doesn't work for most people.

If only either political party in America agreed...

We're stuck with only a small slice of Dems that even acknowledge our system is fucked.

We're stuck with only a small slice of Dems that even acknowledge our system is fucked.
Which explains why Bernie Sanders got sacked in their presidential primaries, twice.
- That was vague, my bad.
  I ~~might~~ meant a small slice of dem politicians.
  Voters of the Dem party and independents largely support healthcare reform, and even a good amount of Republicans.
  But the party keeps supporting incumbents who don't represent their voters.
  Just a bunch of old politicians deciding it's best for all of them to stay in power because they know better than voters.
And you keep going with them or whomever is fighting for the people.
- Vote with your heart in the primary, and your brain in the general.
  Which is why it sucks so much we don't get primaries every election.
  People are literally dying from inaction in America, and we really don't have any say it.

I am tired of this. Is anyone actually working on solutions or are we just going to complain?

What would it take to setup a low cost health care clinic and hospital that is covering it's marginal costs?

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- That story is pretty horrific.
Probably a justice system where you can't be sued for 150 bajilion for every time someone slips on wet floor. And where health insurance does not expect you to give them 95% discount because every other hospital does. Among other things.
I don't know. How would you get around malpractice insurance and deal with the competition that has economy of scale?
- Malpractice insurance is not infinitely expensive.
  As for economies of scale, there are not a lot of them. One doctor and one patient.
set* up* a low-cost health-care clinic
covering its* marginal costs
do what everyone else is doing
vote biden he promises to fix it

It's finally working!!! We're nearly fully incorporated in the profit-machine! I hope the billionaires notice me for a moment so that I can feel like I'm one of them

He looked at me! WITNESS ME!!!

As intended. We are a capitalism. As long as we are, capital shall be God. As long as They who have the most money shall prevail, they who have the most money will prevail.

Capitalism is OK as long as it is regulated. The free market is nearly a myth because of Billionaires.

Here I am. Sitting in a private room with my son at one of the best children's hospitals in the world. 5 therapy sessions a day. And all I have to worry about is food for me and the wife. I used to bug my dad about moving to Canada. Now I thank him.

They don't actually send PHI to collections...