Admin and billing would still exist, but it would be savagely curtailed. We now have to account for every insurance agreement between insurance companies and healthcare systems. These can vary on a hospital by hospital basis causing the incredibly complex system of pricing that are currently used. A single payer system would vastly decrease the need for this administrative overhead. Of course this would result in lost jobs, and an honest assessment of M4A would acknowledge this. Bernie Sanders 2016 M4A bill had funding for the workers having to transition jobs during this change if I remember correctly.
100% agree. However, I try to keep in mind that these are real people with real families doing real work in the ineficient system that we’ve allowed to exist.
Admin and billing would still exist, but it would be savagely curtailed. We now have to account for every insurance agreement between insurance companies and healthcare systems. These can vary on a hospital by hospital basis causing the incredibly complex system of pricing that are currently used. A single payer system would vastly decrease the need for this administrative overhead. Of course this would result in lost jobs, and an honest assessment of M4A would acknowledge this. Bernie Sanders 2016 M4A bill had funding for the workers having to transition jobs during this change if I remember correctly.
On one hand you’re not wrong, but on the other hand there’s something downright perverse about lamenting the loss of middleman leech jobs.
100% agree. However, I try to keep in mind that these are real people with real families doing real work in the ineficient system that we’ve allowed to exist.
Amazon always hiring. McDonald’s always hiring. Hell just about every service industry employer is hiring here.