To be fair the 'cost innovation' would be 'how do we make cover yet more expensive' because private insurers have you in a bit of a bind, don't they? It's 'pay up or die.' That's the alternative you're proposing, is it not?
edit: Also, in the future, maybe we'll have AI doctors, and we're presently seeing remote health care through apps. I'm not talking specifically medical treatment technology, but so many other methods of health care which would greatly be encumbered by heavy-handed government regulations.
Kaiser isn’t much of an innovation it’s just a scaled down model of any socialized health system. It’s exactly what Canada has but smaller.
Also, in the US, Kaiser is an innovation. Comparing a voluntary, private organization to a forced, tax-funded system is a false comparison.
No, it isn't. It's the reason health insurance isn't insurance. Literally everyone will at some point come down with an emergency or life-threatening condition, and 100% of us will eventually die of one. It's not insurance if it's going to happen to you.
> Also, in the US, Kaiser is an innovation. Comparing a voluntary, private organization to a forced, tax-funded system is a false comparison.
That doesn't make it innovating. Cloning a system that works elsewhere isn't innovation. Get over the "forced tax funded" nonsense too, unless you want to relinquish all social services like education, fire, water, etc.
Most people are good, folks, otherwise no society is going to work!