The insurance companies set the prices, the hospitals inflate their prices to cover costs, and the cycle makes actually paying for anything medical out of pocket impossible, so you pay the insurance companies who are for profit corporations as a solution for a problem they actively create. It’s madness. Solution, I guess go to the ER for everything and refuse to pay anything but what is reasonable for the services. In exchange they’ll ruin your credit score. It’s a sad state of affairs.
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There is a “movement”/proposition for value based care. Basically incentivizing doctors to treat their patients so that they go to the hospital less. The less they *need* to go, the doctors get a bonus.
Though like you said hospitals are a whole other can of worms pushing that cycle.
A focus on wellness is so important, but we have to stop letting the monopoly agribusiness dictate what healthy food is. Carbohydrates at the widest part of the food pyramid? What?! That’s not how the body works and the doctors know it. The medical complex is a triage organization fixing problems that wouldn’t be there if wellness was a prerogative. Like you said, if wellness and personal care were incentivized on an individual level….Imagine UBI paid for by corporate profits, at a living wage level for not needing medical care, if you need it and don’t go you die. Problems solved.
UBI paid by corporate profits based on a fiat standard would not solve the issue. If it were all on a bitcoin standard then it might be different.
Not a fan of it overall, then again I haven’t really dug into it.
My concern is still data.
I agree with you long term, but overturning the fiat system with its myriad powerful beneficiaries is a lofty goal with a long road. It has to start small, between individual trading goods for Sats, and not paying into the system. We must starve the beast, there is no other tenable way I can see. The data is key though, data can be used to drive fear, and fear is a powerful mechanism for control.