Awareness goes a long way, we are ahead of Europe in regards to this. A little shift like social distancing may prove to have huge impacts.
Everyone fired their Chinese laundromat business from doing any business with nursing homes or anyone else for that matter.
The trouble with all this really, "only old folks need to worry," stuff...is that I'm an old (62) folk! Oh well, if ya gotta go, ya gotta go!
Since we are printing money, what if we: 1. Quarantine everyone, except those that provide essential services, for a month. 2. Follow Andrew Yang's theme, give every citizen who needs to stay home and cannot work $1,000 free, no strings attach while they are in quarantine so they can buy daily essentials. 3. Follow what China did, phase in removal of quarantine. Continue to pay those who need to be quarantine. You disrupt the economy for about a couple of months.
Creating dependence , all you do by involving gov....more fragile because your conditioning people to not take care of themselves....
I thought I'd appeal to people with the state's rights argument, but it's clear the "private insurance with hidden costs" propaganda is as deeply ingrained as smoking propaganda. These same people wouldn't buy a car off a lot without knowing the cost, but are happy to pay $500/mo. for decent exchange insurance not realizing the $200,000 co-insurance after deductible they forgot to look over when they have a major surgery. Perhaps their argument would hold more water if costs were transparent and negotiation happened by the patient...rather than a backdoor deal between hospital administration and the guys lining their pocket at MegaInsurer Inc. It certainly does make one wonder what the true cost of medical care is if you can get a 80% cash discount from your family doctor by asking...