American health care, costs and results SUCK .... BIG TIME

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/19/health/health-care-rankings-high-income-nations-commonwealth-report/index.html

shortest life span,
Highest health care expenditures
Worst possible results..

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72andy · 51-55, M

This is the issue when healthcare is almost purely private.
Unlike in Europe where there is almost universal healthcare in many countries where costs can be controlled, and profit taken by companies on increasing market share, not by overcharging.
In the us, this has become algorithm driven. And they know that in many instances, overcharging but selling less is more profitable.
The differential in costs between healthcare systems is stark. You just need to look at insulin and adrenaline pens to see.
But you reap what you sow.
You get rid of universal healthcare because younger apparently healthier people don’t want to pay. But then when they do get sick can’t access it. What do you expect.

Healthcare becomes just for the very rich. So the majority get very little.

Of course. This will eventually may lead to a destabilisation of society.

When you look at it starkly. The healthcare system in the USA is more similar to Russia and China which have a massive private component than the other democratic countries.

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72andy · 51-55, M

@pdqsailor1 when they are in competition with a good tax based system they do provide value for money. Look at Australia or maybe Belgium as a good example
Then they help reduce the healthcare divide and better outcomes across the healthcare spectrum.
Bit you also don’t want a dominant public system as we see in the uk. That leads to mediocrity.

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72andy · 51-55, M

@pdqsailor1 I think you are not getting the point here. I have not derided any healthcare system other than the USA. What I have pointed out is that healthcare systems which have a fallback of a universal healthcare system such as the Australia and parts of Europe, but a strong competitive private system have the best outcomes.
The uk lagged behind other European countries on outcome based measures as there is tendency to fall into mediocrity in a dominant universal system. But it is less expensive than similar counties in Europe.
I have no experience about Canada, but have a few colleagues who have worked there say it’s pretty good, but very different from the uk.
What we do see is that when there is no good tax based system to fall back on. Only the rich can afford it. And when that gets extreme, even the middle class suffer. Leading to articles as was quoted above.

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Crazywaterspring · 61-69, M

Welcome to capitalism.

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