Die Provinzen haben es bisher nicht geschafft, sich auf die medizinischen Kosten der Boomer vorzubereiten, aber es ist noch nicht zu spät
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The only way we can make a substantial difference is by ensuring our economy has much more substantial growth in the long term .
Immigration doesn’t scare . it’s the lack of investment that came with the Immigration that scares me, and we can’t just high volume are way to better health care with low gpd per capital.
We have all the right ingredients to increase our productivity. Let’s clear the lanes and start stimulating investment, and then we can make a plan to ensure our seniors are well taken care of.
I certainly agree with the author that the realities of underinvestment in the medial system need to be resolved, and we absolutely cannot place the burden on a working age population while the boomers die with their hoarded wealth.
That said, we also need to be reducing the costs of medical care, and we know the route to do this. Drs. should be government employees, whose wages we can repress, and incentives we can directly control, not private contractors.
The recent crisis in nursing is directly related to the rise of agency nursing, these agencies need to be crushed. Along with private labs doing blood work and radiology work that have sprung up to screw the public.
On the pharmaceutical side, we know from the PBO that a national Pharmacare plan would save $2-4B a year, just from bulk purchasing. This is before we get into anything more serious, like re-creating publicly owned labs for generic drug manufacturing, as we did as recently as the 1980s, before privatization. Then we can get really radical and start weakening or invalidating patent protections to produce lifesaving medications at cost. What are the Americans going to do, tariff us?
The medical education system needs to be reformed, to address the ridiculous level of attrition at every stage of the process, and in particular break the CMAs hold on medical education, which acts more like a guild than a professional association.
Boomers spent decades voting for and cheering on neoliberal policies that cut countless public programs and pulled the ladder up for everyone else. They had decades to prepare for their impending retirement and needs, but instead chose short-term benefits.