{"id":15657,"date":"2017-07-30T19:45:20","date_gmt":"2017-07-30T23:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goldstocksforex.com\/?p=15657"},"modified":"2017-07-30T19:45:20","modified_gmt":"2017-07-30T23:45:20","slug":"a-new-health-insurance-system-in-the-united-states-catallaxy-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatientinvestor.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/30\/a-new-health-insurance-system-in-the-united-states-catallaxy-files\/","title":{"rendered":"A new health insurance system in the United States | Catallaxy Files"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus:<\/p>\n

Donald Trump may be finding it difficult to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). But what is he trying to replace it with? It seems nothing that will contain costs and provide a reasonable level of health care to all Americans. Capitalist or socialist or communist one should not in a first world country accept a health care system which fails many people.<\/p>\n

If Trump wants to look overseas for a new model, he could do worse than adopting the Australian system. While our Medicare and private health insurance system has a number of deficiencies and needs substantial reform, it is far and away better than the US system where an initial simple consultation to a doctor costs a minimum of USD 200.<\/p>\n

According to OECD data, the cost of health care in the United States is $9451 per capita compared to $4420 in Australia. The World Bank has Australia\u2019s health costs at 9.1 per cent of GDP while in the US it is 17.1 per cent of GDP. The European Union average is 10 per cent of GDP.<\/p>\n

Think of the implications if the US could bring its health costs down to Australian levels. It would save USD 1.5 trillion each and every year. And by bringing in a Medicare-like system the US would give better access to health care by all Americans.<\/p>\n

If Trump wants to go down as a hero in the United States he should work in that direction. No other President or Congress has been able to make such major health care reforms in the USA or to address the powerful lobby groups which work to maintain the status quo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What caught my eye was this interesting comment posted by flyingduk:<\/p>\n

I am a senior Dr working in SA. The health system has become Godzilla. It is a rampaging beast eating every resource thrown at it and producing little of value in return. Our hospitals and our ambulances are packed full of hopeless cases and self inflicted disasters. We are pointlessly throwing ever more $ at elderly people with complex, end of life medical conditions. We are spending enormous amounts on meth addicts, alcoholics and the morbidly obese. Most of this money evaporates with nothing to show for it. The \u2018health\u2019 system has ceased to be a health system. It has become an \u2018illness\u2019 system. It cannot go on like this. Its going to collapse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So a state-funded system has its problems as well. But there is an alternative. From Margherita Stancati at WSJ online<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Like other European countries, Italy offers universal health-care coverage backed by the state. Italians can go to a public hospital, for example, without involving an insurance company. The patients are charged a small co-pay, but most of the bill is paid by the government. As a result, the great majority of Italians don\u2019t bother to buy private health insurance unless they want to seek treatment from private doctors or hospitals, which are relatively few.<\/p>\n

Offering guaranteed reimbursements to public hospitals, though, took away the hospitals\u2019 incentive to improve service or rein in costs. Inefficiencies were rampant as a result, and the quality of Italy\u2019s public health care suffered for years. Months-long waiting lists became the norm for nonemergency procedures\u2014even heart surgery\u2014in most of the country.<\/p>\n

Big changes came in 1997, when Italy\u2019s national government decentralized the country\u2019s health-care system, giving the regions control over the public money that goes to hospitals within their own borders\u2026..<\/p>\n

In much of the country, regions have continued to use the standards of care and reimbursement rates recommended by Rome. Some also give preferential treatment to public hospitals, making it more difficult for private hospitals to qualify for public funds.<\/p>\n

Lombardy, by contrast, has increased its quality standards, set its own reimbursement rates and, most important, put public and private hospitals on an equal footing by making each equally eligible for public funds. If a hospital meets the quality standards and charges the accepted reimbursement rate, it qualifies. Patients are free to choose between state-run and publicly funded private hospitals at no extra cost. Their co-pay is the same in either case. As a result, public and many private hospitals in Lombardy compete directly for patients and funds.<\/p>\n

\u2026..Around 30% of hospital care in Lombardy is private now\u2014more than anywhere else in Italy. And service in both the private and public sector has improved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

State hospitals have improved their service levels while private hospitals have lowered costs in response to the increased competition. A win for the taxpayer and for patients.<\/p>\n

Source: A new health insurance system in the United States | Catallaxy Files<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus: Donald Trump may be finding it difficult to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). But what is he trying to replace it with? It seems nothing that will contain costs and provide a reasonable level of health care to all Americans. Capitalist or socialist or communist one … <\/p>\n

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