How would treating healthcare as a human right reduce the total cost of healthcare?
• If everyone had preventive and primary care, the need for much more expensive critical and emergency care would be greatly reduced. • Public healthcare systems tend to have dramatically lower administrative costs than private systems (5% vs. 30%). Eliminating multiple systems with different rules and exclusions would also reduce the administrative burden on healthcare providers. And, of course, eliminating private health insurance companies would eliminate money spent on profits and on corrupting the political system. • With a single “risk pool,” the healthcare system administrator would have more power in negotiating the price of pharmaceuticals and medical equipment. And public governance boards could better allocate healthcare resources. • With universal healthcare, medical malpractice insurance would not have to cover the cost of future medical care that might result from a judgment against a provider. • Under the current business model of health insurance, not only is there a tr
