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Originally Posted by GirlySports
It's currently not really privatized. There are some services you can pay for but it's still under the government umbrella and way too expensive. $500 uninsured for a CT Scan or wait a year? What if it were $200 and insured. Would more people jump the queue?
I don't want crazy American privatization where you can get a dental cleaning for $50 (i've done that). But some more services going private and being covered by insurance might move the system along better?
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The thing about health care is that an informed consumer doesn't exist. So any form of privatization just turns the system over to hypochondriacs with a little bit of money and causes worse outcomes for everyone else while overall costing a lot more, even if some individual procedures/tests become cheaper.
You can't have an active market place for and industry that has such high stakes people make bad choices