Total profits for US health insurance companies in 2025 were $50 billion. The other $950 billion has got to come from cutting:

1. money to providers

2. overall healthcare consumption

3. bureaucratic redundancy and waste

1 is going to piss off medical providers. 2 is going to piss of the general public. 3 is going to piss off the 20 million healthcare industry workers who are not direct care providers. So pick your poison. This is why it will never pass.

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Hikikomori a day ago | parent | next [-]

And overhead of running the insurance company like salary and office, then wasted time for doctors.

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chaps a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Have you ever dared to dream of something that sounds impossible but isn't?

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gadflyinyoureye a day ago | parent [-]

The average Georgian plumber has higher purchasing power than the average German doctor. In order for the United States to balance its medical books, doctors will have to be paid dramatically less than they are at present. Perhaps there’s a deal to be made where doctors take the hit, but all of their debt is paid off by the state. Going forward medical school is free, but like in Germany you have to qualify, I mean really qualify to even get your foot in the college door. That’s an expectation change for the United States population on all fronts. We don’t do well with expectation changes.

	▲	chaps a day ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, a lot of these issues are felt in other fields too so it feels like there's a need for a larger, wider schism. Like I would love to go to law school but I can't afford it. So many possible but inherently unattainable futures. We'll get there.