The "problem" for Health Maintenance Organizations, and for privatized
health care in general is that to show a profit, the people who are
"covered" by them must either be healthy or die (or recover, but it
matters little qualitatively) swiftly. Any disbursement to cover medical
costs decreases profits.
What to do, what to do?
The genius of the market and its bought-and-paid-for minions, lackeys
and lickspittles in the US Congress will, I predict, provide the
following solution: Make all disbursements TAX-DEDUCTIBLE.
This will have the consequence of providing a system functionally the
same as something like single-payer systems. The individual tax-payer
will be paying twice (or more often, depending on the co-payment then
required), while the second payment provide the surplus which will be
distributed as "profit" to the corporations' executives and
stock-holders.
Cheers, chers
konopak
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