Episode 6.5 - Academic Half-Day #2, part 2: The Public Payers of Healthcare

oh happy day (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-4mtA6Z88k">oh happy day</a>)! it&#8217;s finally nice out and you know what that means. yes friends, part 2 of academic half-day #2 is here. we discuss the payers of healthcare, specifically the public sector payers. Medicare, Medicaid, the Indian Health Service, CHIP, the VA.. there&#8217;s actually quite a large number of public payers within the United States healthcare system. but that&#8217;s not inherently a good or bad thing; there is no essentialist character to what government is or isn&#8217;t, can or can&#8217;t be. we can make the public sector efficient and actually serve the people if we construct and fund it correctly. and considering the astronomical administrative burden, means-testing mechanism, and increased costs stemming from the fractured nature of our current healthcare payment scheme - which is a BIGTIME dissatisfier - we can easily do better than this busted ass system. <br/><br/>[part 3 coming soon where we discuss the private payers of healthcare, i.e. the private health insurance industry & consumer-driven healthcare, as well as make concrete comparisons of our healthcare system to other countries.]<br/><br/>tunes:<br/><br/>intro: created by fidel cashtho<br/><br/>outro: Paprika by Japanese Breakfast <br/><br/>Get on the email list at <a href="https://www.marxismandmedicine.com?utm_medium=podcast">www.marxismandmedicine.com</a>