Millard Craft

Medicare for All means no premium, no co-pay, no deductible. Doesn't matter if you get a job, lose a job, turn 26, turn 65, get married, get divorce — it is there for you.

Today is World Schizophrenia Day I’m grateful to have treatment for my scz that keeps me well It wasn’t always that way I’ve had terrifying times where psychosis ruled my life & landed me in hospital Sending my love to those currently struggling - things do get better💜

Ok. Take government completely out of healthcare. No rules. No laws. No Medicare. No Medicaid. Hospitals, insurance companies, can do anything they want. What do they do ? If you were running any of the biggest insurance companies or hospitals, what would you do differently once gov was completely out of healthcare ?

tell me an interesting lore about healthcare.

Here is my Model for the future of healthcare systems. I've been working on this idea for years. Sadly I don't think I'll ever have enough money or standing to pull it off. So I am posting it here hoping that someone else sees the value and does it.

If I have to see an NP instead of a real doctor, I want a 50% discount on my bill This is quite the racket healthcare providers have devised. Most of the time you go to the “doctor“ you’ll never see a doctor at all. You’ll see a nurse practitioner. But they’ll still bill you as if you had seen a doctor. Even though the nurse practitioners are far less educated and trained, and paid much less.

If a healthcare company has 2700 subsidiaries and does 160 billion dollars annually in inter-company transfers, do they care if the government is involved or not ? If another company, same industry thinks they are so powerful they won’t show senators the pricing of a government contract with TriCare, even in a SCIF Do they really care if the government is involved or not ?

If you want more doctors doing house calls, not selling their practices and going to work for the big HC conglomerates, make public med school free. A little gov intervention, so that rather than having 100s of thousands in debt guiding their decisions , they can do primary care or be a family physician and spend as much time with patients as they want. They can take cash. They can take chickens. If you had 250k after almost a decade of school, do you think that would impact your decisions ? And if you own a big HC conglomerate, does knowing they are drowning in debt impact your decision and how you compete and contract with them ? Fuck yeah it does. You pressure them till they have to sell out to you in an acquihire. They can’t afford to survive on their own and every huge HC company takes advantage of them About 32k students enter med school and DO school a year. 75k for a grant each. Thats 2.4b annually for each class. That’s it. You want better healthcare for everyone. That’s the place to start.