Comment by nootropicat
3 years ago
That's not the problem, that's the reason almost all medical development happens in America.
Rich people from all around the world travel to American hospitals if they have serious health problems, not to public hospitals even in rich countries like Norway. Public healthcare works (poorly) as a way to distribute existing treatment, but is worthless at incentivizing development. Really, the entire world is unfairly parasitizing on Americans to fund medical research.
That is not true, look up medical outcome data. Most of europe is far ahead or even with the USA.
Unless you are looking at outcomes of only the top institutions it's not really what he was saying. The US has a bad system for the average person for sure, but that does not mean that the US doesn't have one of the best systems if you can afford the best care. If you have medical outcome data that disputes that specifically I'd be interested.
Why would you think the best hospitals in the USA outperform any other developed country's best hospitals? Especially when those countries already deliver better average results across the board. Why do you have this belief and what is it based on?
One example of cancer outcomes on a per country basis: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/cancer-su...
Just google medical outcomes for any disease on a per country basis.
Do you really think the best hospitals in France or somehow worse than the best hospitals in the USA? Especially when the best hospitals in the USA still have the same fundamental problems as the rest of the American system?
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> The US has a bad system for the average person for sure, but that does not mean that the US doesn't have one of the best systems if you can afford the best...
That's basically the case for everything in America, so I'm not sure that it says anything remarkable about the American healthcare system.
Like can you think of anything else in America that you couldn't apply that statement to?
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Or rather America is siphoning market by having monopoly. My father works in pharma factory and wages have not risen almost at all since 20 years ago when it was bought by americans (by bribe to gov). Some drugs got 10x more expensive while workers and patients got it worse. This was ultra scam but even after change of owners it’s basically the same.
Capitalism works only with competition. But competition is against capital owners short-term extractionism (or rather against ceos who feels need to justify their pay). IMO solution is to let workers vote on CEO pay changes and punish white collar crime better and many problems of capitalism might get solved.
EDIT: IMO it won’t work as long as globalization can be exploited to suppress working class and avoid regulation