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JayhawkSD

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4. Well, yes, that is a very good point.

Wed Mar 4, 2015, 11:44 AM

Mar 2015

But that is not "payment based on illness episode and outcome," which is the proposition to which I was responding. It is simply the provision of health care service and it is, indeed, what our society should be doing. (I was actually responding to comment #1.)

Your example is particularly apt, because at one time there was no general provision of fire protection service. Fire protection was by subscription only and was carried only by those who could afford it. The system was a spectacular failure for our social order, and we went to general provesion of fire protection service for the good of society.

Your suggestion would have doctors working for a salary, which is what pretty much everyone else does, so I'm not certain why they should not.

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With Private Health Insurance, Waste Is Revenue [View all] eridani Mar 2015 OP

Yes it is, and a big part of the problem is health care providers who insist on being paid for all Hoyt Mar 2015 #1

"...payment for episodes of illness and outcomes." JayhawkSD Mar 2015 #2

Yes--your health care should have cost the same each time, that is ZERO at the point of service eridani Mar 2015 #3

Well, yes, that is a very good point. JayhawkSD Mar 2015 #4

a travesty. And now permanent. And costing me 15 times as much as before. Doctor_J Mar 2015 #5

Yes. Big K&R, thanks! nt Zorra Mar 2015 #6