r/FluentInFinance • u/The-Lucky-Investor • 13d ago

“Medicare for All” would save the U.S $5.1 Trillion over 10 years Discussion/ Debate

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/11/30/easy-pay-something-costs-less-new-study-shows-medicare-all-would-save-us-51-trillion
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u/JDHPH 13d ago

This always seemed so anti-competitive to me. A trained physician should be able to start up their private practice/clinic to compete for patients. Just like any other business model, serving its customer base through transparent competition.

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u/ElChuloPicante 13d ago

They can do that. What they can’t do is stand up a service to which they refer their own patients. It’s to prevent things like routing patients to higher-cost, lower-quality, or harder-to-access goods and services. We don’t want doctors submitting prescriptions exclusively to a pharmacy they own, for example.

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u/n3wsf33d 13d ago

Idk other corps are able to horizontally integrate. Seems weird. Seems like we should just be able to submit to whatever pharmacy we want vs the MD making the submission?

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u/Novel_Patience9735 12d ago

Ask your doc a paper Rx instead of electronic submission. Problem solved.