"Somebody involved in it, perhaps towards the top, should do something about that", he continued.
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“I mean, not me. I only just got this job. Still finding my way. But someone should definitely do something. Gonna be a lot of work figuring out what should be done. It’s just so complicated. We’re going to have to invent some way to make sure everyone can access competent and affordable healthcare. How do you do that? Where do you even start? What a monumental task. But think of the accomplishment if we could do that. Think of the example we’d be setting for so many other nations. We’d be pretty great. I mean we already are pretty great, but we’d be better. Man, we’d be awesome.” At this point he’s gone, like a poor person dreaming about what they’d do if they won the lottery.
Here's an idea. Take out the pieces that inflate costs, provide no actual healthcare, and make ridiculous profits.
But that's him and his company! 😯
By getting rid of private health insurance.
What a headline...'I thought they need to get worse'
Said no one ever about anything sensibly...
Translation: "Needs to function better *for me and my company's earnings report"
Thieves guild boss says people should earn more and have more money in their wallets.
Which means removing your company from the equation. It's the cause of the system not functioning
Says the insurance company adding friction into it and telling doctors that they know better which treatment should be done.
Now that is funny.
More green plumbers please.
New bargaining chip at the table: his balls and a tenderizer on a wooden slab.
Let us commence the negotiations.
Ha ha ha ha ha DUH
And to do that they are going to increase premiums and double your max out of pocket limit every year. Perfect!
Edit: ok having read the article it looks like he is going to push for regulating pharmaceutical companies while simultaneously pushing for states with stricter insurance regulations to be forced (via federal courts or legislation) to lower their standards.
So, a combination of reducing his costs and reducing benefits for the consumer. Sounds like the only one winning is him.
He's right. Let's get rid of the part that doesn't function well. His entire industry.
All it does is put barriers between patients, their doctors, and the care they need while increasing costs with no actual benefit to anyone other than the insurance executives. Nearly every job in the industry would still be needed under a universal health care system, there just wouldn't be a middle man increasing prices by billions every year so they can make a profit.
It would be functioning better if you and the rest of publicly traded and private equity-owned healthcare systems made way for a functional public option.
You don't say? Please, tell us more words.