alt Hacker NewsIf private health insurance was allowed, UHC would be stillborn. It only works if providers don't have better options than medicare reimbursement rates.
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a-posteriori • last Monday at 4:40 PM
What are you proposing happens to providers who freely contract with patients at rates above Medicare reimbursement?
> It only works if providers don't have better options than medicare reimbursement rates.
1. A number of other developed countries have UHC while also allowing a private system as well - what is unique about the US that other countries' existing approach couldn't work here?
2. Less importantly, in this world where everyone has medicare, but a smaller fraction have private coverage, your argument is that the existing healthcare providers would choose to give up most of their (medicare) patients? If so, why wouldn't providers choose to stop serving medicare patients under the pre-2026 system, where giving up medicare patients would be a far smaller loss than in a world where everyone has medicare?