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0 pointsasadotzler1y ago0 comments

There was a study comparing Kaiser Permanente with the UK's National Health Service (NHS) that found Kaiser achieved better performance at roughly the same cost.

If we could use tax dollars to make Kaiser national, and scale that large without losing the efficiency and results, we'd be in darned good shape.

Eliminate other private health insurance and if people want above and beyond service they can negotiate directly with providers and pay out of pocket for that.

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arethuza1y ago

That comparison has a lot of criticisms, for example:

https://bjgp.org/content/54/503/415

Angostura1y ago

> There was a study comparing Kaiser Permanente with the UK's National Health Service (NHS) that found Kaiser achieved better performance at roughly the same cost.

Linky?

tonyedgecombe1y ago

>If we could use tax dollars to make Kaiser national, and scale that large without losing the efficiency and results, we'd be in darned good shape.

It's hard to do that without turning it into the NHS.

swores1y ago

As a Brit, that sounds like a positive not a negative, though I appreciate that in the US it might be a political negative.

tonyedgecombe1y ago

I don't know, the experience with my mother in law over the last few weeks has left me wondering about that.

I certainly don't want a free for all system like the US has (and I suspect the Tories want) but it isn't great at the moment.

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0 pointsasadotzler1y ago0 comments

There was a study comparing Kaiser Permanente with the UK's National Health Service (NHS) that found Kaiser achieved better performance at roughly the same cost.

If we could use tax dollars to make Kaiser national, and scale that large without losing the efficiency and results, we'd be in darned good shape.

Eliminate other private health insurance and if people want above and beyond service they can negotiate directly with providers and pay out of pocket for that.

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arethuza1y ago

That comparison has a lot of criticisms, for example:

https://bjgp.org/content/54/503/415

Angostura1y ago

> There was a study comparing Kaiser Permanente with the UK's National Health Service (NHS) that found Kaiser achieved better performance at roughly the same cost.

Linky?

tonyedgecombe1y ago

>If we could use tax dollars to make Kaiser national, and scale that large without losing the efficiency and results, we'd be in darned good shape.

It's hard to do that without turning it into the NHS.

swores1y ago

As a Brit, that sounds like a positive not a negative, though I appreciate that in the US it might be a political negative.

tonyedgecombe1y ago

I don't know, the experience with my mother in law over the last few weeks has left me wondering about that.

I certainly don't want a free for all system like the US has (and I suspect the Tories want) but it isn't great at the moment.

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