Single-Payer Healthcare Video
For the next form of research, I decided to look for videos that talked about single-payer healthcare and I found one by VOX on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNla9nyRMmQ
It talks the viewer through what is incredibly wrong with the current healthcare system America has. In this current day scenario, different insurances talk to the healthcare providers such as the hospitals itself and bargain prices for how much they will pay and that is then transferred to the customer. In America there is a sliding scale as per se for healthcare; you can go to the er with multiple different insurances (from public like medicare to private like Kaiser) and pay a varying amount of money or you could show up with no healthcare and pay the entire full price. This current system takes advantage of the fact that most people don't know enough about health procedures themselves to "do it themselves". They also take advantage of the fact that when people come in for help they are often in a dire situation and cannot say no. The problem lays in the fact that we let insurance companies go to the healthcare providers and negotiate prices instead of the government saying we have all of your customers so we get to decide how much you charge and therefore it is a standard rate for everyone. These prices are then handed to either the private insurance companies like Germany or the government in the UK you negate the problem of a varying scale for each procedure. Overall, this video gave me a new insight into why American healthcare is so complicated and how it could be successful to switch over to single-payer healthcare. I did learn, however, that even if we did switch as a country it wouldn't necessarily equate to cheaper healthcare, you would probably still be paying just as much but in a different way.
It talks the viewer through what is incredibly wrong with the current healthcare system America has. In this current day scenario, different insurances talk to the healthcare providers such as the hospitals itself and bargain prices for how much they will pay and that is then transferred to the customer. In America there is a sliding scale as per se for healthcare; you can go to the er with multiple different insurances (from public like medicare to private like Kaiser) and pay a varying amount of money or you could show up with no healthcare and pay the entire full price. This current system takes advantage of the fact that most people don't know enough about health procedures themselves to "do it themselves". They also take advantage of the fact that when people come in for help they are often in a dire situation and cannot say no. The problem lays in the fact that we let insurance companies go to the healthcare providers and negotiate prices instead of the government saying we have all of your customers so we get to decide how much you charge and therefore it is a standard rate for everyone. These prices are then handed to either the private insurance companies like Germany or the government in the UK you negate the problem of a varying scale for each procedure. Overall, this video gave me a new insight into why American healthcare is so complicated and how it could be successful to switch over to single-payer healthcare. I did learn, however, that even if we did switch as a country it wouldn't necessarily equate to cheaper healthcare, you would probably still be paying just as much but in a different way.
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