Reply #48: Medicare for all wont fix everything [View All]

[Juche]

It'll help (medicare for all will cut $400 billion out of medical costs), but we are still going to have by far the most expensive system on earth.

Abuse of the profit motive (attempting to sell people the most expensive treatments possible even if they don't work better), doctors who do unnecessary tests to avoid being sued, lack of low cost care outlets, huge amounts of waste, etc. all eat up a big part of medical care. You need to fix that along with single payer to make our system sustainable.

In some countries like the UK teams of medical professionals investigate the cheapest, safest, most effective treatments and promote them. In the US private companies promote the most expensive treatments, even if they don't work better than cheaper alternatives.