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Switching everyone to a high-deductible would be disastrous for people with expensive chronic conditions like diabetes. It would force people to forgo treatment or select suboptimal treatment even in the absence of chronic conditions, leading to complications that require further treatment down the line. Not a fan of this idea.


Ideally for the truly low income there would be subsidies, but it’d have to be limited enough for them to still have skin in the game.

The end point is that what are now expensive, chronic conditions would become much less expensive. There would be some pain in the interim.

Frankly I’d be all for tying our drug prices to the prices in other countries. If I were king for a day I’d do both that and what I detailed above.




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