“If everyone pays for health insurance, the cost goes down,” said Jason Doctor, chairman of the Department of Health Policy and Management at USC’s Price School of Public Policy. “This means that some kind of risk pooling is required.”And once we acknowledge that, the question becomes: How can we pool healthcare risk as efficiently and effectively as possible? That is the way health insurance works.”Yet to some people — mainly conservatives — health insurance is different from other forms of coverage. Nothing about transforming the U.S. healthcare system would be easy. We’re not talking about a government takeover of the $3.6-trillion U.S. healthcare system.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 21, 2020 12:56 UTC