Dr. Paul, being the only (serious) presidential candidate who has actually accepted medical insurance (Very briefly. He has since denied accepting Medicare/Medicaid and treats those patients for free), can attest to the fact that governments paying for health insurance does not work. Why? Because they pay what they want, and doctors get shafted. Regardless of what my dad (when he was still in practice) may have charged for a procedure, insurance companies/Medicare paid him what they wanted to, and he had no recourse. What needs to be changed is the private health insurance system. The current system of doctors and hospitals getting paid by the procedure encourages lengthy hospital stays and unnecessary tests. What needs to happen is for car insurance companies to stop selling health insurance, and hospitals to start selling it. Paperwork and red tape would be virtually nullified as everything would be conducted by people in the same building. A hospital would have incentive to treat a patient quickly and make sure they don't come back because the hospital would be spending money on you while you're there. Currently, though, as long as a patient is in the hospital... well, you want to keep him there! Why doesn't this happen? Because there are laws on the state and federal level preventing hospitals from doing that very thing. Allowing hospitals to sell their own insurance would result in drastic cost reductions, but would cut out an entire well developed (and hard-lobbying) industry.
Besides, isn't the federal government broke enough as it is?
and also, government workers have very modest salaries. if all doctors were to be in a government-funded healthcare system, they would be considered government workers, no? so how would they be getting shafted?
The current system of doctors and hospitals getting paid by the procedure encourages lengthy hospital stays and unnecessary tests. What needs to happen is for car insurance companies to stop selling health insurance, and hospitals to start selling it. Paperwork and red tape would be virtually nullified as everything would be conducted by people in the same building. A hospital would have incentive to treat a patient quickly and make sure they don't come back because the hospital would be spending money on you while you're there. Currently, though, as long as a patient is in the hospital... well, you want to keep him there!
Why doesn't this happen? Because there are laws on the state and federal level preventing hospitals from doing that very thing. Allowing hospitals to sell their own insurance would result in drastic cost reductions, but would cut out an entire well developed (and hard-lobbying) industry.
Besides, isn't the federal government broke enough as it is?
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