The government will still have kind of the same "we want to avoid paying wherever possible" incentive that private insurers have. I've heard that countries with universal healthcare tend to be conservative about what they cover -- not in the political sense, but in the sense of "we pay for proven things with a long track record, and incremental improvements, but are skeptical about revolutionary treatments." But who knows how it'd actually work out in practice. AFAIK the US is the only first-world country with private healthcare, so having us change would be a big shift in global healthcare.
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Date: 2021-08-15 12:41 am (UTC)The government will still have kind of the same "we want to avoid paying wherever possible" incentive that private insurers have. I've heard that countries with universal healthcare tend to be conservative about what they cover -- not in the political sense, but in the sense of "we pay for proven things with a long track record, and incremental improvements, but are skeptical about revolutionary treatments." But who knows how it'd actually work out in practice. AFAIK the US is the only first-world country with private healthcare, so having us change would be a big shift in global healthcare.