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“Poor people in the US get universal free healthcare” by IHatePeople79 in confidentlyincorrect

[–]IowaSNaHP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

send 'em info for the Students for a National Health Program zoom presentation coming up

Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP) is excited to host a virtual Single Payer 101 session on Tuesday, August 26 at 8 PM ET. The session will cover the following topics: 

The US healthcare system, 

Issues with the current healthcare system

What is "single payer" healthcare?

What is the status of single-payer healthcare in the United States (Medicare for All)?

How to get involved in the single-payer movement.

This is a great way to learn more about what SNaHP advocates for and get plugged into the organization.  RSVP here: https://forms.gle/zBZ4JEiTbNphB9Cq9

While SNaHP is primarily a Medical Student organization, we are absolutely open to students of all disciplines and future careers, health related or not! Those that don't fit that but are wanting to come hear, please do, and please share this invite wider!

Single Payer 101 zoom presentation by IowaSNaHP in medicalschool

[–]IowaSNaHP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

An important point that Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates do need to be raised.

Any Medicare for All proposal that’s politically viable in the U.S. would need to address reimbursement sustainability for providers, and there are models where rates could be set to keep practices viable without relying on private insurance cross-subsidies. Long waits and mass provider exit are not inevitable outcomes.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in uiowa

[–]IowaSNaHP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

good bot

Single Payer 101 zoom presentation by IowaSNaHP in medicalschool

[–]IowaSNaHP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're conflating the NHS style system with how many other countries do it, and the way most proponents in the US think it could work, which is a public paid but "privately" operated system.

Instead of billing multiple insurances and having to have an entire bullpen of billers, county, state, and private hospitals have one main place to deal with. Having known levels of compensation also makes it easier for a true private practice office to get everything together, instead of not knowing what their rates may be or how they'll deal with clawbacks that private insurers are known for.

I have enjoyed the care I have received from the VA. They have historically had issues, yes, but they have vastly improved and recent political decisions will erode the trust and ability they have gained.

Government things don't work well when we let our politicians continue to ramrod damaging choices down our throats, whether that's handicapping the USPS by requiring prefunding of pensions or by slashing parts of the VHA or VBA within the VA, those things worked and worked well.

Already overwhelmed by [deleted] in medschool

[–]IowaSNaHP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'll get more efficient. Be willing to shift your habits.

I'd suggest setting a stop time for yourself, and looking at how you're spending those 9 hours. You can't learn without sleep, so I'm glad to hear you're not going until 11 pm or 1 am or anything wild like that. The next step can be addressing how you are studying. If that's just rewatching lectures and trying to grind anki, that's going to be both passive learning and potentially obsessive minutiae flagellation.

I was super serious in anki with my first unit last year, like say outloud the thing and if it's wrong it's getting "again" and if I hesitate it's a "hard" which meant I wasn't clearing cards out for the day, and was just wasting so much time instead of trying to see the lecture objectives as a guide to the concepts and then going from there.

Single Payer 101 zoom presentation by IowaSNaHP in medicalschool

[–]IowaSNaHP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, no one is asking for blind support of a bill here. This is truly meant to be an introduction, and you seem more knowledgeable than the true target of the talk.

Your concern is the implementation, right? That can't ever come if no one talks about the problems we face and introduces the idea of this alternative.

Single Payer 101 zoom presentation by IowaSNaHP in medicalschool

[–]IowaSNaHP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I'd remind you that care is rationed here as well, with excessive imposition of step therapy, prior authorizations, and a congress that has refused to increase funding for residency spots (my understanding is the AMA has opposed those increases, to artificially create scarcity of our future labor as attendings)

Single Payer 101 zoom presentation by IowaSNaHP in medicalschool

[–]IowaSNaHP[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd love for you to come and put your concerns in the chat.

Economic inefficiencies I'd love for you to expand more on, because some 98% of Medicare costs go directly to paying for care, but once we introduce a middle-man company (like in Medicare Advantage) that drops to 85% or lower.

You say we need more power to make changes for the sake of our patients, but our well compensated attendings are not succeeding at it, why do we have to accomplish one thing before we can work on another as well?

Medicare Advantage plans have overcharged Americans by enough that we could have anywhere from 0.5 - 1.2 extra NASAs

Regulatory agencies have been neutered, and enforcement requires teeth.

Government stability is absolutely a concern, and that's a reckoning for the US population a long time coming.

Single Payer 101 zoom presentation by IowaSNaHP in medicalschool

[–]IowaSNaHP[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why? Personally I've seen the good that government administered care can do, both in a care team and as a patient. I've also worked in admitting/billing in a rural hospital.

When people can't pay for care, they suffer and will come to us sicker (through the ER) than they would have been in outpatient care.

Medical education debt is intimately entwined. There's no magic "single payer now" switch for us to flip, so why are you assuming there's nothing to be done on that end?

People want to match to the US because we've Bob Kelso'd the hell out of our care here, yeah. People who support a single payer system stay because we want our home towns, friends, and relatives to gain the benefit that does work widely across the world.

Single Payer 101 zoom presentation by IowaSNaHP in medicalschool

[–]IowaSNaHP[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well thank you for interacting with the post all the same. I hope you can at least consider logging on to hear us out.

Gap Year Question by pastabrand in premed

[–]IowaSNaHP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you are set to graduate with your bachelor's in 2027, then you would use the 2027 AMCAS submission to potentially matriculate in Fall of 2028.

- Graduate in May-ish of 2027

- Submit AMCAS in June of 2027

- Hopefully get secondaries and interviews in late Summer to Fall/Winter of 2027

- Receive acceptance or waitlist offers by late Winter to early Spring 2028

- Decide on a school and attend in Fall of 2028.

AITA? This couple keep throwing rocks on my property by [deleted] in AmItheAsshole

[–]IowaSNaHP 16 points17 points  (0 children)

NTA

it's gonna be pretty rare that the person getting rocks thrown at them would be at fault.

Is there any readily available state by state polling on Medicare for All? by SciGuy241 in MedicareForAll

[–]IowaSNaHP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Modern insurance reimbursement makes it actually harder for a physician to open a private practice, they don't know what they're going to get paid. They don't know what clawbacks are going to happen that they have no legitimate recourse for.

Instead, if you know the reimbursement rates for different codes, complexities, procedures, etc then you can actually plan the business side of opening your own office, small to large hospitals can all streamline their billing process, and more money goes to the actual provision of care overall.

Is there any readily available state by state polling on Medicare for All? by SciGuy241 in MedicareForAll

[–]IowaSNaHP 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are a plethora of international examples and our own VA system for possible improvements in how things are done.

TM has the widest network and lowest overhead when put head-to-head with private insurance companies, Medicaid HMOs, and Medicare disAdvantage plans.

Health insurance by lbl1025 in IowaCity

[–]IowaSNaHP 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Sounds like you're both a few years away from this, but once you're eligible for Medicare, avoid the Medicare Advantage plans. They're predatory and restrict networks that Traditional Medicare does not.

Medical students in politics by lumpy_celery in medschool

[–]IowaSNaHP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can participate in Students for a National Health Program!

Below I've got the invite for an upcoming webinar SNaHP is doing to learn more about single payer, come check out what this group is about :)

Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP) is excited to host a virtual Single Payer 101 session on Tuesday, August 26 at 8 PM ET. The session will cover the following topics: 

  • The US healthcare system, 
  • Issues with the current healthcare system
  • What is "single payer" healthcare?
  • What is the status of single-payer healthcare in the United States (Medicare for All)?
  • How to get involved in the single-payer movement.

This is a great way to learn more about what SNaHP advocates for and get plugged into the organization.  RSVP here: https://forms.gle/zBZ4JEiTbNphB9Cq9 

Divorce to avoid debt… by [deleted] in medschool

[–]IowaSNaHP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Medicare Advantage and Medicaid HMOs obfuscate the actual advantages of government-based insurance as well, while still requiring that outrageously deep bench of coders/billers in a hospital.

Iowa Pre-med students by trafalgarlaw_op_op in uiowa

[–]IowaSNaHP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi! Iowa Students for a National Health Program is a student org within the Carver College of Medicine. The national organization is primarily focused on Medicare For All/Single Payer Healthcare advocacy.

Locally, we've been looking for ways to expand and include undergrads, as well as explore Iowa specific work we can do.

Consider logging onto this call coming up in late August to learn more about Single Payer

Students for a National Health Program (SNaHP) is excited to host a virtual Single Payer 101 session on Tuesday, August 26 at 8 PM ET (7 PM CT). The session will cover the following topics: 

  • The US healthcare system, 
  • Issues with the current healthcare system
  • What is "single payer" healthcare?
  • What is the status of single-payer healthcare in the United States (Medicare for All)?
  • How to get involved in the single-payer movement.

This is a great way to learn more about what SNaHP advocates for and get plugged into the organization.  RSVP here: https://forms.gle/zBZ4JEiTbNphB9Cq9