Single-Payer Universal Health Care Explained - TYT

[D Gary Grady]

12. Excellent point, and it's a saving we could go for immediately

For example, U.S. banks and mortgage companies (pretty much all of them, I think) use a standard application form for home mortgage loans decreed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. There are also federal standards for homeowner insurance (because the insurance is required by mortgage lenders). Health insurance companies could and should be required to have similar standards imposed on claim processing. Even some Republicans might go along with this. Lots of doctors are conservatives and campaign donors who would like to see insurance companies get beat up on a little.)

I think something very similar is already in place in Japan, Germany, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and other countries with multiple health insurers. (It goes without saying, of course, in single-payer countries like the UK, Canada, or Taiwan.) In France, I've read, insurers are required to pay a doctor's bill within a matter of days. They can of course claim fraud or error or otherwise try to get the payment reimbursed, but there's none of this business of routinely requiring bills to be resubmitted over and over and over before they're paid at all.