You don’t need to have the state pay. Make them charge the same price to all customers. Then you can have insurances compete. My body shop doesn’t charge one insurance $10/hr and another insurance $100/hr for the same work.
In my experience auto insurers assess damage and award $X for repairs. You can either go to their contracted body shop or pick your own. If you pick your own, they typically take the $X as payment.
So many don't realize that this is entirely because Medicaid pays less than the cost of treatment. So hospitals make it up by charging other customers more.
If you actually wanted this then your taxes would go up because Medicaid expenses go up dramatically.
Maybe it's worth it - but at least be aware of what you are asking for.
"So many don't realize that this is entirely because Medicaid pays less than the cost of treatment. So hospitals make it up by charging other customers more."
I would like see an accounting of that. I bet they charge way more than they have to if they want to make up for Medicaid.
I'd be interested in reading more about this. A lot of the cost of medicine is overhead interfacing with insurance providers and all the layers of profit therein, but I don't know exactly how much.
